I put Evah Pirazzi Gold Label strings on Rudy this morning. Poor Rudy has not had a string change in over a year. He was very sad. 

I have Evah Pirazzi Green Label on my good cello. That cello loves those strings. They were installed over two weeks ago and sound fabulous. I thought I would try the gold violin strings on Rudy.

So far, and it has only been a few hours, Rudy is a very happy camper. He is singing beautifully, as beautifully as he can with me playing it. Since I don’t play in any community group of any kind or do any fantastical fast bowing etc, my strings do not wear out very quickly, so these should be good for a while. We will see. 

Funny how different strings sound better on different instruments. The Evah Green Label would not sound right in Ada, my Schroeder Cello, or on Monte, my student cello that I bought first. Those two sound completely different from my good cello.

I don’t think my Evah Gold Labels I just put in Rudy would sound right on my Concert Deluxe violin, Rudy is mellower than the Concert Deluxe. The Fiddlerman strings sound fantastic on the Deluxe, but not was well on Rudy. Completely different violin sounds. If they did sound good on the Deluxe, it would probably be a good mellower sound and I bought the Deluxe for a brighter sounding violin for fiddle tunes and upbeat tunes. 

Oh, that reminds me, I am going to need to order a backup set of Fiddlerman violin strings. I gave my niece Pawny and a new set of Fiddlerman's for a back up set. I put a new set on before I gave Pawny to her in the Summer. I will wait. If I still like the Evah Golds, I will get both backup sets at the same time. 

So, play around with different brands if you don’t like the sound. Might not be the instrument. Maybe the strings and instrument are at odds with each other.