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Pirastro Obligato 4/4 Violin String Set - Medium Gauge - with Ball-end E | 
 enlarge | Brand: Pirastro
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $143.85
Buy New: $69.01
You Save: $74.84 (52%)
New (2) from $69.01
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 4485
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
MPN: STVNOBL16_1NAB
ASIN: B000NFWB18
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Full Set includes All Ball-End Gold-plated Steel E, Alumuminum winding/Synthetic core A, Silver winding/Synthetic core D, Silver winding/Synthetic core G | | • | 4/4 Violin | | • | Medium Gauge |
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Product Description
Pirastro Obligato strings are based on an exclusive new core material, along with advances in manufacturing techniques, resulting in the true warmth and complex overtones of gut core strings with the stability and quick response of synthetic core strings. Obligato has also demonstrated quick break in time, exceptional projection, and unusual durability.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Brendan Mulvihill disagrees June 4, 2008
Susan Dabney (Easton, MD)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brendan Mulvihill who was all-Ireland champion several times advised me to try the Obligatos. They are expensive but so rich and responsive. And yes, they can give a little subtlety to a violin that tends to have a brighter sound if you prefer dark. But we put a set of used ones on an old violin someone dragged out of the closet and played a gypsy duet, and wow! Just the ticket.
 Warm, soupy sound, high priced January 19, 2008
C. Chu
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought a set, tried them on a few of my violins and can't say that they did anything for me. They took away any edge and interest from the violins, making it warm, soupy and bland. The gold e was unremarkable, except that it makes the set more expensive. They are heavy and not very responsive. I think from reading the boards, that people primarily buy them to tone down a brash, harsh, shrill violin. So they seem to be a fixer-upper string, if you have a misbehaving violin, they will make the sound more pleasant and smoother. However, on responsive high end violins, they take away the sizzle and spark.
I have also heard that they don't last long, and as one luthier joked, they're called "Obligato" because they oblige you to buy another set soon. Beware if the luthier fits a violin with Obligatos, he is trying to give you a warm rich sound on a violin that has the shrill nasties and only after the trial period is over do you realize the strings have gone false, and the sound has deteriorated. (insert smiley, half joking)
That said, I'll give it 2 stars because I'm sure there are violins out there where these strings are a perfect fit for, and someone out there will swear by them and love them.
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