Evah Pirazzi Slap

The new Evah Pirazzi Slap set is especially designed for the Rockabilly and Slap Bass players. This new set excels through its full-bodied, powerful, and strong sound from the very bottom to the top of the register.

The Evah Pirazzi Slap set is a unique blend of modern and traditional core materials, combining a plain gut G and D with a synthetic core chrome steel wound A and E. The tension is low and even across the entire fingerboard and the design of each individual string has been carefully matched to one another allowing for effortlessly smooth transitions from string to string without any tonal break between the plain gut D and synthetic A.

The tone is dark and rich with great projection which is ideal for slap style but also great for old-school pizzicato.

The gentle processing of the gut core is key to conserving the ravishing beauty of the gut strings’ sound. At PIRASTRO we exclusively work with sheep gut and have been developing our expertise in processing gut strings since 1798. Our family formula has been carefully protected over generations within PIRASTRO’s employees. The plain gut G and D of the Evah Pirazzi Slap set are made using new techniques which allow for reduced playing-in-time and increased tuning stability without losing the beauty of the gut sound.

The core material of the A and E consists of a new synthetic material that we have co-developed with our supplier and which we obtain exclusively. This new core material offers an unmatched wide range of sounds, is absolutely insensitive to temperature and humidity changes, and offers the musician an unparalleled dynamic range. The A and E strings are then precision wound with a finely polished chrome steel flat wire.

UPDATE JANUARY 2016:

Alternative modern synthetic core G- and D-strings are also available.