New Double Bass Strings from Pirastro: Perpetual 'Stark'

October 28, 2025, 5:20 PM · This week Pirastro announced its newest strings for double bass: Perpetual 'Stark.'

Pirastro Perpetual Stark double bass strings

"The new Double Bass Perpetual 'Stark' strings are a wholly unique development that in comparison to Perpetual 'Mittel' have a fuller and warmer sound with an especially high gauge," said Pirastro. "They are the thickest strings in our steel string range, and yet their string tensions remain close to those of the Perpetual 'Mittel' strings."

The Perpetual 'Stark' Double Bass Strings are chrome steel, wound on a uniquely designed and extremely flexible high-tensile steel rope core.

"Thanks to their special and highly elaborate construction, the new Double Bass Perpetual 'Stark' strings produce immense volume and can be played with surprising and incredible ease. The thicker diameter supports the strings‘ response, for both pizzicato and bowed playing. They are well suited for players of many kinds of music, be it classical, jazz, or modern music, in an orchestra, or solo playing."

Read more about these strings on Pirastro's website.

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