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It's always interesting to see that people who, for whatever reasons, choose to approach the violin by self-teaching, try to reinvent the w ...

I'm curious why you would want to use gut strings on a contemporary instrument? They're not designed for that.

Gut strings are used for baroque instruments and sold as the Corelli brand or (bett ...

I use this one, and have all my students get it as well:

Intelli Chromatic Metronome/Tuner
http://beststudentviolins.com/StringCareSpecs.html#tuner

Thank you; the luthier got back to me. They have a 314mm and 316mm which translates to 12.36 and 12.44

Someone is telling me that "scale length" is the length between the nut and the bridge. I had never heard that terminology before. Is that correct? And also, they want that information fo ...

Interesting that you'd learn first and second position, and then the third. That's not the way it's usually done, since the second position is used very little (relatively) and the third is used a gr ...

FWIW I like the Dorfler bows and have used them for years. They are priced everywhere from $168.00 to $1,920.00, with the highest priced ones being the gold mounted, of course. There are also some b ...

Students are required to have a three-ring, loose-leaf notebook with
filler paper, in order to keep track of their assignments and
handouts. I take a blank sheet of paper and put it in *front* of th ...

Can anyone recommend a good music carrying case, one that will protect quartet sets, scores and violin/piano music from doubling over if the case is not full, and also protect against bad weather? I ...

No comments??

I probably will not use this, but as a teacher, it is important to have that roundedness in bow hand. Stern described it as a series of springs. Most students begin with pancake hand (for the left h ...

If you know others, please let me know? I found that most of the online lists were full of dead links and errors. For links, please see:

[url=http://beststudentviolins.com/Home.html#summercamps]ht ...

I'm an adult beginner, not a teacher.

As a busy adult, I do not feel I have enough time in a week's worth of practice to make weekly 1hr lessons worthwhile. Lucky, I found a teacher who is willing ...

I looked everywhere and was not able to find a good how-to page on how to re-string the violin/viola. I therefore wrote the following, but I'm sure it could use some editing. If you'd care to look a ...

Do other teachers feel that there's usually not enough time, even in an hour lesson, to do all the things they think would help the student? It's particularly difficult if an adult student only wants ...