Violin Forum/Message Board

Jascha Heifetz had a similar problem as you when he complained that Piano players had a much wider repertoire to choose from . Nowadays the music we hear has already been chosen by the music industr ...

An interesting comment but almost the opposite of what I noticed with adding the guitar bridge weights . Close to the time I cured the guitar problem I also added short tornavozes to a few guitars . ...

The guitar is a far less powerful instrument than a violin because it has no bow to drive the sounds . But I have added weight to a guitar bridge and produced a much nicer sound quality while I had on ...

The tap tone notes being the same for top and back have given me a simple .effective cure for annoying dead notes . The only reaction on a guitar forum was a sort of disapproval without offering any o ...

A useful coincidence was the tuning of the top and back plates of the twp Roca guitars . Both guitars had their plates tuned to the same frequency . That was the tap tone in the middle of the plates . ...

If I wanted to attach a stainless steel rod inside a violin I would not try to glue it directly to the wood. I would glue the steel to a strip of spruce first with Bostik or Evostik . Then glue the sp ...

There is a useful comparison between Violins and Guitars . The "rotation" in a violin bridge is basically across the body, where in a guitar the "rotation" is along the body . Or t ...

The resident expert on Delcamp guitar forum advised me not to use bluetack on the bridge as it would mess up the volume. But I had already done it and was happy with the result . I can`t remember why ...

If you tune a violin in fifths the two strings create beats as they get closer together. A more permanent situation happens if the plates on a guitar or violin are tuned to the same frequency . A viol ...

I always think of magnets as a temporary solution .Where would you fit the weight permanently ? I would guess glued to the bass bar just under the bridge foot . I did not look at these as wolf no ...

I was wary of talking about my happy discovery until I saw a question on Maestronet which did not solve the riddle .
I worked out the way to cure dead notes on classical guitars . It worked perfect ...

To focus on the people advocating the string jamming methods I might as well state who they are : Kennedy Violins . I doubt if Nigel would recommend the peg slipping solution .I don`t know if Nigel Ke ...

I found the smallest single string tuners needed very tiny bits of filing to allow the ends of the metal pegs to come through the box . I imagine there might be lighter ones to do the job . The cosmet ...

One youtube site thinkihg to help players struggling to keep their violins in tune has advocated slackening the strings and re - winding the string tight up against the peg box to keep the peg from s ...

Can you see what asymmetry in the sides would do ? Guarneri made violins without any exact symmetry. Modern makers " who know better than him" write that off as carelesness. But he might hav ...