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 Topic: Getting to Know the Wood |
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| Will L Replies: 5 Views: 8131 |
 Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:37 pm Subject: Getting to Know the Wood |
Sorry. All I did was try to edit a word, and I end up posting again. I guess i should do it more often til I get it right.  |
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| Topic: Getting to Know the Wood |
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| Will L Replies: 5 Views: 8131 |
Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:34 pm Subject: Getting to Know the Wood |
| Consider this offering to be some ramblings which might mean something.
As a violinist I played thousands of bows over a lifetime. In that time I only found two bows which were what I would consid ... |
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| Topic: Workbench Top |
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| Will L Replies: 11 Views: 8076 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:54 am Subject: Workbench Top |
| I have no idea how this got printed twice, so I'll erase the content that is in the post above and tell my idea for new cars:
I think every new car should leave the factory with a big scratch put in ... |
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| Topic: Workbench Top |
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| Will L Replies: 11 Views: 8076 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 1:53 am Subject: Workbench Top |
| I remember when we got a new bench in the College of the Redwoods class. Boyd Poulsen immediately brushed some varnish on it to christen it. I know why, because when I bought a new bench it was hard ... | |
| Topic: An observation |
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| Will L Replies: 8 Views: 5558 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:05 am Subject: An observation |
| Varnish kitty first, then varnish violin. Voila!
(sorry, I couldn't resist)  |
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| Topic: Successive Staccato in one bow, up or down |
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| Will L Replies: 11 Views: 25160 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:29 pm Subject: Successive Staccato in one bow, up or down |
| That is impressive in many ways. Just to be able to go all the way from one end of the bow to the other is remarkable. And to be able to do it up and down bow, too.
But I suggest players always c ... |
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| Topic: Spic vs. Stac and how long can someone play something |
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| Will L Replies: 8 Views: 12804 |
Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:12 pm Subject: Spic vs. Stac and how long can someone play something |
| If you are going to compose well for any instrument, obviously the more familiar you are with it, the better. The bowed instruments are unique in that there are "standard" ways of using the ... | |
| Topic: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
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| Will L Replies: 12 Views: 9522 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:16 pm Subject: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
| Ken,
You were always providing something in the way of amusement, information, or perhaps the loan of a tool, or just general moral support. I kept saying I was going to show my appreciation by get ... |
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| Topic: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
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| Will L Replies: 12 Views: 9522 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:28 pm Subject: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
| That's great to hear, Ken,
I am planning on it. And I still owe you a 1540(or whatever that number is). |
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| Topic: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
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| Will L Replies: 12 Views: 9522 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:27 pm Subject: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
| That's great to hear, Ken,
I am planning on it. And I still owe you a 1540(or whatever that number is). |
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| Topic: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
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| Will L Replies: 12 Views: 9522 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:49 am Subject: Pod Cast, Rachel Barton Pine and Paul Becker |
| Hi Ken,
I missed seeing you this year. There's always next year! On scraping: I spent a whole week scraping and finally understood, after all these years, that if I think of the scraper as a p ... |
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| Topic: neck measurments |
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| Will L Replies: 11 Views: 13843 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:30 pm Subject: neck measurments |
| BTW,
Weisshaar does give a number for the distance between the top of the button and the "ducktail." It is 10.08-11 cms. Page 163. |
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| Topic: neck measurments |
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| Will L Replies: 11 Views: 13843 |
Forum: Violin Making and Restoration Forum Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:16 pm Subject: neck measurments |
| If you start with the 130mm measurement, the back of the chin or nape (also called "ducktail" by the definitions in the new IPCI book) of the pegbox should be lined up with the bottom of the ... | |
| Topic: Making a 6ft long bow...help! |
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| Will L Replies: 25 Views: 22807 |
Forum: Bow Making Forum Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 2:28 pm Subject: Making a 6ft long bow...help! |
| Regarding using nylon for the hair, a friend of mine definitely used something like that years ago. Unfortunately he is deceased so I can't ask him exactly, but I recall he said it was nylon fishing ... | |
| Topic: Jack Benny's Stradivarius |
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| Will L Replies: 4 Views: 10162 |
Forum: Everything Else Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 1:16 pm Subject: Jack Benny's Stradivarius |
| Benny's Strad was a "long pattern" if I recall. From the 1690s. I played on it a little many years ago but I wasn't too impressed. But LA Concertmaster Martin Chalifour plays on it, and s ... | |
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