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Some interesting meaurements to compare wooden pegs with tailpiece adjusters --and guitar tuners
weight of 4 wooden pegs =16,5 grams
4 guitar tuners =18.1 grams
That`s a ...

In a guitar site Christian Crevels builds a classical guitar and at the end uses an oil finish and it shows the direct simplicity of such an uncomplicated method . By the way it shows an excellent sho ...

Oh I get it .I had to look up Nope to see if the professionals were being rude to you . So they need to carry a motorised peg turner for the job . I`m sure some tat from Temu would keep them happy .
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I always thought that violin bushings were made of Maple but today the advertise boxwood bushings . How do they react ? Are they better than Maple .
Why did the professionals and peg turns give a ...

Something about this reminds me of the problem Menuhin experienced when he was about 16 yrs old.A gremlin on his shoulder seemed to asking him "How do I do all this?".It had an unnerving eff ...

Do you think the Soviet School taught these details or just left them to work it out for themselves ? Nathan Milstein said he was not taught much in that way . I have not seen the 2 books by Carl Fles ...

Have you tried Finishing Oil by Liberon ?Apply very thinly by damping a clean rag with it and see how quickly it dries . You hardly wet the surface for the first two applications .Just wipe it on a pi ...

I tried the experiment with just the single E string in the Swedish article .I had difficulty pinpointing the wolf note on F#6 .but I tried changing the bridge .It was a bit too light according to the ...

Well varnish for any maker can become a hidden trapdoor leading down dark mysterious tunnels filled with ghosts and spiders . Don`t let go of the string that can bring you out again safely.

A coincidence for me was to discover Leonid Kogan was born yesterday on 14th November 1924 . 100 years ago .
I was going to comment about his bowing ,mainly in the Kreutzer sonata that I often retur ...

There are other aspects of this tragedy .On the same plane with 48 passengers was Marcel Cerdan.(see impressive films of his best knockouts on youtube ) . He was a former middleweight boxing champion. ...

Sorry for a late answer . The final came and went so fast I almost missed it .
The full competition (seven episodes) is on BBC iPlayer.
Look for. ; "BBC Young Musician ". Available ...

I would never trust my planing on edge in a vice . A long time ago I made a very clunky ,clumsy wooden clamp to hold both wedges together with a formica slider to guide the plane surface . That was un ...

I forgot to mention the weight of bridges in the article from Sweden. It`s somewhere near 2.8 grams. Not exactly (one way or the other ).A tiny pocket digital weighing machine will help with that . T ...

I had to rewrite the music competition name as it changed in 2010 . 3 young finalists .2 pianists and one violinist from Ukraine . All played a concerto each . All the music was Russian .