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 Topic: change weight or balance of bow? |
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| Shirley Replies: 10 Views: 14522 |
 Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:21 pm Subject: change weight or balance of bow? |
| Lemuel - thanks so much! I was not able to contact the bow maker in Boulder this weekend, but I will try again tomorrow. All of this information is so interesting! I have all this in mind now, and ... | |
| Topic: change weight or balance of bow? |
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| Shirley Replies: 10 Views: 14522 |
Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:23 am Subject: change weight or balance of bow? |
| Mat - thanks again! I'm going to be measuring everything tomorrow and having a grand time. I never figured the frog movement and placement during tightening bow hair was different between bows. Ther ... | |
| Topic: change weight or balance of bow? |
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| Shirley Replies: 10 Views: 14522 |
Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:16 pm Subject: change weight or balance of bow? |
Lemeul - Thank you for the welcome back - I haven't been "foruming" much lately...but you see where I go when I need help! 
This viola bow, which seemed pretty good at the time I boug ... |
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| Topic: change weight or balance of bow? |
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| Shirley Replies: 10 Views: 14522 |
Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:53 pm Subject: change weight or balance of bow? |
| Doug ~ Thank you! This encourages me even more to get me to the bowmaker of my choice! Great news.
I didn't realize there was such a difference in weight of wraps...that explains a lot: I've go ... |
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| Topic: change weight or balance of bow? |
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| Shirley Replies: 10 Views: 14522 |
Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:30 pm Subject: change weight or balance of bow? |
| Thank you, Mat! I really didn't know if something like that was feasible. There are several good bow makers in the area, and one I have done business with once before, who also repairs bows, so I th ... | |
| Topic: change weight or balance of bow? |
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| Shirley Replies: 10 Views: 14522 |
Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:18 pm Subject: change weight or balance of bow? |
| Hello - Could someone comment on the possibility of re-distributing or lessening the weight of a completed bow?
I have a pretty good viola bow (Vidoudez by Ouchard) which pulls a lovely sound, but ... |
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| Topic: Yet another claim of Stradivarius secrets |
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| Shirley Replies: 96 Views: 70373 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:19 pm Subject: Yet another claim of Stradivarius secrets |
Actonern ~ "hyper barbaric"  |
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| Topic: new strings on a new violin |
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| Shirley Replies: 7 Views: 12769 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:55 am Subject: new strings on a new violin |
| Chad - I am happy to learn about the "washers."
Shirley |
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| Topic: new strings on a new violin |
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| Shirley Replies: 7 Views: 12769 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:08 pm Subject: new strings on a new violin |
| Whoa, Maricas! Wait for an experienced repair person on this site to answer you, or you may cause some real damage. The soundpost definitely does not belong under the middle of the bridge, but at le ... | |
| Topic: Bow Hold Buddies |
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| Shirley Replies: 6 Views: 13794 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:14 pm Subject: Bow Hold Buddies |
| Ruth ~ I enjoyed reading your post - very interesting! Thanks for posting. Shirley | |
| Topic: The Making of The Quartet of Peace. |
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| Shirley Replies: 9 Views: 10353 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:30 pm Subject: The Making of The Quartet of Peace. |
| Dburns - The viola sounds, lovely, doesn't it? Good luck to all who participated in this project, and thanks for posting!
Shirley |
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| Topic: Gut Strings |
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| Shirley Replies: 20 Views: 31333 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:28 am Subject: Gut Strings |
| Hi, Jack - I hear such wonderful things about gut strings, but I had the same experience with them on my viola that you are having - they just continued to sound awful. So then I tried Olives, and th ... | |
| Topic: sharing : a fun but effective idea from a French violin prof |
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| Shirley Replies: 3 Views: 6417 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:05 pm Subject: sharing : a fun but effective idea from a French violin prof |
| 18: I like this! I can use all the help I can get, and this looks doable. Thanks! Shirley | |
| Topic: How I'm doing this song?? |
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| Shirley Replies: 6 Views: 8302 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:07 pm Subject: How I'm doing this song?? |
| Salazarmartrus ~ The author of the Equatorian nation anthem is your daughter's great, great, great grandfather? She has something to aim for! Good for her - and she probably has the genes and gumpt ... | |
| Topic: strings for viola |
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| Shirley Replies: 8 Views: 9636 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:05 pm Subject: strings for viola |
| Amezcua ~ well - what do you know about that? Really interesting! I'd like to learn more. Shirley | |
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