Pro-Arte Violin String Set 4/4 Size

This is the 1st time I’ve used these strings, but have used its “brethren” Zyex & Helicore some years back. These string create a solid pleasing central resonance; they do not particularly try to emulate the “gut sound” or provide additional warmth & coloration as some other popular synthetic strings do. I’m considering this a “journeyman string set” really very nice for jazz and folk, not that a classical piece would suffer from it. I’m very pleased so far.

IMOHO*, These are the best-sounding mid-priced strings available, today(2016). To get a string that definitely makes my violin sound better than these, I have to spend $137.70 for Pirastro Olive strings. And those are gut, which means you cannot play on them out-of-doors, at least here in the humid South.
So I am happy to pay one fifth the price of the pirastros for a set of great-sounding, long-lasting of Pro Artés. They suit me for both classical music and traditional Irish tunes.
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*: In My Occasionally Humble Opinion