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PIRASTRO-ROSIN is manufactured at our own site under permanent quality control.
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Back in the 10th to 12th century people were using resin taken from fir and pine trees for painting and making watertight their wooden boats. In the mediteranian east people were also looking for better playing on stringed instruments about that time. They firstly were using sticks giving them a rough surface for striking the strings made from dryed sheep gut mostly. Later people found out to take long horse hair instead of a sinew for bowing the strings which proved to be the perfect invention but with a layer of rosin paste to the bow hair. Only the bow hair with rosin gave the necessary contact and strings could be pushed into vibration.
Violinists and violists need a more dry or hard rosin, cellists a medium and double bassists a more sticky rosin in general. Steel
strings can be better played with dry or harder rosin, Moreover, experienced players prefer a more soft rosin for the studio and a harder rosin in the concert hall. Dry rosin is best in tropic and soft rosin in cold climate. Please remove rosin from your strings, instrument and bow after your play using a soft and dry cloth. Carefully use your string cleaner - alcohol can damage your instrument's surface - and please put some string oil to cleaned plain gut strings to keep their elasticity for their life time. Special
advise: Do not use rosin close to open fire. Dry rosin powder and
rosin cakes with their alcohol components can catch fire. Getting old, all rosins are losing their characteristical formula slowly. They dry out too much. We recommend to use rosin within one year only. Pirastro
rosin is being developed and produced on our own premises in Offenbach/Main,
Germany, for 203 years now.
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