Violin Forum/Message Board

Pretty cool? Nah that would be ultra cool.

Michael, did you buy the Lady Blunt? Or are you handling it for a client?

Either way, amazing.

Sorry, are you saying you had the Lady Blunt in your shop?

No problem, I think people will be happy to provide both positive comment and advice.

Well done!

First time I have heard it, but now I think about it, violins are alive from conception let alone birth... though some are more alive than others Smile

There is lots of shorthand in music notation, much of it short for Italian expressions that explain how you are meant to play a piece.

A piano is not a piano but a piano forte (Or a soft and loud). ...

And incidentally, fiddle music is good as well as violin music, I like both...

Fiddlers do all sorts of things.... Wink

I was talking about the bridge, specifically the way it is cut varies. The difference between a violin and fiddle is mostly who is playing it and what they are playing, but also the curve on the bridg ...

Stradsman, if you bow like you mean to bow, (using the right technique) you will learn quickly. If you fear it, you won't. It is as simple as that.

Not true! The instrument has no objection to amateurs, it's just that if you are going to play it, play it like you mean to!

Well, a fiddle bridge has a shallow curve, a violin a more pronounced one.

In general I have found that I play two strings at once with a more fiddle cut bridge than violin cut one. (So I recut the ...

I have not played any fiddle stuff so can't comment however have you looked at the cut of your bridge?

If it has a shallow curve it may be cut more for fiddle than violin music.

As far as I can tell it depends on whether you are playing the violin or fiddle.

With a violin you tend to have it higher up and more straight out (your more awkward position) and a fiddle tends to ...

Well done. Now get some tunes back under your belt to make it interesting!