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A warning on that color: we have a fire-engine red violin that sounds GREAT. It's a modern Italian and easily beats anything in its range. I've watched it bounce around dealers for 25 years because it ...

Thanks. Happy holidays! I sort of watch numbers---I think there are more lurkers than just the two of us. 22,000 views--I know I don't account for 7000 of that.

Always question assumptions.

With normal pegs you can change a string in about 30 seconds. With geared pegs it takes a couple of minutes. If you're the only violin in a group on stage with an audience waiting that's a big differe ...

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I've installed quite a few sets of these for students and they work great. When I tell professionals, who depend on being able to instantly change a string on stage during a conc ...

Weighs to clip on violin bridges already exist: mutes. They come in many weights from almost nothing up to several ounces. It's generally accepted that they do not improve the sound of the violin.
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Actually, it is exactly a wolf note solution. On violins the critical spot for adding weight is about 35mm below the bass side f-hole on the top. If you can get someone else to play the note, run your ...

https://darntonviolins.com/f-hole-placement/
That's the diagram but it only works on a totally normal outline, and many Strad outlines are variations, with logical variations in placement. My diagram ...

Id rather suspect that the person who faked up the label used that piece as their inspiration.

Instead of a smooth back surface I visualised a set of ridges with the angle of the ridge surfaces set to steer sound waves towards the soundholes.

Don't want to be the guy who has to fit a soundpo ...

Just off the top of my head, I don't think I've ever seen an H Amati labeled violin, even. I think they're incredibly rare, the Brothers Amati being the norm for that generation. But I really doubt th ...

It helps if the player is deaf: moving the bridge around can affect tone quite a bit. I've seen bridges in a variety of nonconventional place, and usually the sound was better after they're put where ...

As a general rule I think you'll find that most makers develop a setup that works well enough for the specific thing that they make, where people involved in repair and restoration develop a standard ...

"The phrase Small Thinking about placement of the bridge relative to the inner nicks remains a mystery . That sounded very odd . I wondered if that included every maker who ever made nicks in sou ...

You might consider whether a page with a bunch of people giving answers which don't agree with each other can be termed "valuable". Perhaps the proper conclusion to come to is that they don' ...