You will be expected to follow the rules.

Basically the title. I need a good bow that is below 200 bucks. My current bow is very cheap, so I’d rather buy a new bow than get this bow rehaired lol.

Hello, I'm wondering what is a good way to practice Saint Saen's violin concerto no 3 efficiently, because I'm feeling like I'm not practicing the piece the right way with time spent, awkward fingerings/ bad fingerings, and potentially burning myself out overthinking the technical parts of the concerto (if that makes sense).

My experience before attempting to play Saint Saën's, I have played Dvorak new world symphony, orpheus in the underworld overture, picture at an exhibition (arr Carl Simpson) with a youth orchestra, Bach in A minor 1st mov, 3 pages Bruch violin concerto 3rd mov, little bits of pieces here and there.

I understand it will take time and patience to understand the concerto and play the piece, I just dont want to spend time practicing and for it to not improve or make a difference with the concerto as well as if I would be able to handle playing the concerto as at all.

Thank you for your time reading, and if I dont make sense (bad habit) I will do my best to explain in the replys.

I've been seeing them everywhere lately and can't for the life of me find out what they are.

I ended up snagging a deal on what appeared to be an older violin that’s in poor condition and most likely just decor at this point. I’m cool with that, and don’t expect it to be worth anything more than what I make of it (which will still be a great piece to hang on my wall most likely!). It came with a nice locking case and some bows, bridges, strings, and other supplies that I was more curious about than anything else—I don’t want to ask the usual “do you know what this is” question, but can’t find databases or sources for the labels of the makers on the bridges or strings, or anything similar—Everything that pops up is just string stores selling whatever part I’m looking for resources of, and I’d love to know of any places I can look to try and find more for curiosity’s sake. The local store near me charges $250 for an appraisal and quite frankly I don’t think it’s worth that much money, but do still appreciate knowing the history of stuff.

The seller said that the violin was “an old civil war violin”. I’m guessing it’s probably just a cheaper violin from the 50’s that aged poorly and looked “antique”, but I am still curious about the parts! The bows were actually still great quality despite missing half the hair on them, and I’m considering taking those in to be re-haired since I was in need of a new bow anyways.

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Is it normal for my fingers to be rubbing off black stains from the fingerboard? I've been playing for 40 years; 20 years on this violin specifically and have never encountered this until the past 2-3 years or so.

The way to learn to play the violin as an aged adult is to buy a first year tutor book and go through it piece by piece. Use all the advice freely available on the internet. Finish the book after the first year. Then start again for the second year but using again the first year tutor book revising each page and piece and scale etc. After you have done that then do it again in the same way for the third time. Take your time - there is no need to rush to get on to the advanced tutor music books. Just get the first position right and do not bother with vibrato or third position. Get the basics and when you have those and can play all the pieces and songs be happy. Simple tunes played well are most effective. Try to find a local amateur orchestra, they are always looking for improvers and will welcome you somewhere in the end of their back row. Now you can catch up with third position and vibrato. You will not be great, nor do you expect to be,but you can call yourself a violinist. Ian Mitchell

I just got a new laptop, and it has a strange problem. During my lessons, through SKYPE, the sound cuts out as soon as my teacher starts to play. When he talks or sings, no problem, but when he plays his violin, I hear a very brief sound of violin, then nothing. I think it must be somekind of noise cancellation. (hahah it thinks a violin is noise!)

Has anyone else had a problem like this with remote lessons? Any ideas appreciated, thanks.

I began playing violin last February. It's my first time to ever hold one. I am currently at the Go Tell Aunt Rhody phase and my bow thumb becomes easily sore. This obviously affects my playing. Any tips for warm up? Thanks!

Hi people!

I've been learning violin with a online teacher, who I know personally from Argentina but I am learning alone, and I'd love to have people to play with, better if you are also beginners like me, so we can progress together.

Is anyone out there?

How the random stranger expects me to look after they say "your too white to play violin"

Hey guys! I played the violin very intensely as a teen, but adulthood hit and i stopped playing. Now I want to restart, I have Etudes at home, but knowing myself I need captivating pieces to stay motivated playing.

I absolutely love romantic pieces like Tschaikowsky 5th Symphony & piano concerto or Rachmaninow 2 piano concerto, the more drama the better. Are there any violin soli or concertos with a similar style? The last pieces I really enjoyed playing myself was Kabalewski violin concerto in c major and thais meditation.

Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!

Tldr: need ideas for pose holding violin + bow for a bobblehead

Trying to buy a custom made bobblehead to gift to my teacher as I'm graduating. I need a reference photo with a pose, and I'm going to do a standard holding the violin pose. You know, with the person standing and holding the neck of the instrument with his other hand supporting and/or holding the bow? The issue is i cant find a photo on the internet like that. I need something that would work well for a bobblehead aka not disturb the head area too much. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I really want to make this work nicely.

The maker has no background in violin whatsoever so the picture basically needs to be exactly what it should look like, and I'm struggling bc I don't know how to find a good picture like that.

edit: this Or maybe this but standing? I'd have to figure out how to position the bow.

Hello, I'm a 15 year old violinist and have been playing for 5 years, played with a youth orchestra, Tri-city orchestra, and done UIL solo's (where I'm from). I was wondering how could I get gigs and get myself out there to get more experience and potentially play has an orchestra soloist?

P.S if it doesnt make sense/understanding I will try my best to explain and sorry for the grammer working on it.

Does anyone have any more info on the Leatherwood Hypoallergenic Rosin Project?

I am allergic to everything and have been hunting for a rosin that doesn’t make me want to scratch my eyes out. I remember entering my info for this project a few months ago, but never heard anything.

Anyone know if they’ve marketed one yet?

Hi, I'm trying to find the right set of strings for when I want to tune G-D-A-E to C-G-C-G (about a fifth/sixth lower for each string). Right now the Prim heavy gauge strings sound really good (except the E, but that's ok) but the only problem is that there is some sort of material or winding on the string itself. Indian classical music uses lots of slides and the winding is really making it hard to do the slides. Does anyone have suggestions for strings similar to Prim but without the winding? So far I'm thinking Thomastik Superflexible and Thomastik Precision.

Thanks!

F16 here, I asked my counselor if I can take IB music next year instead of IB psychology (which I’ve chosen previously) since I changed my mind. But she said she can’t do that since my orchestra period is conflict with the schedule, and that’s because I’m in second level orchestra (3 levels in total at my school, 1st best 3rd worst), which is only available for 6 period.

However, if they change my orchestra period to 1st period (1st level orchestra), then I’ll be able to. She stated that maybe I can take IB music theory my senior year, but I want to take it before then because I feel like the earlier the better. Should I tell her that I really want to take IB music before senior year and beg her to make it work? Or just suck it up 😣😣

I’m debating so much because I really want to take Ib music. But I don’t think my orchestra teacher wants me to be in 1st level orchestra, since I didn’t audition in.

And this has already happened once so I think they are kinda tired of me 😭 when I changed my regular schedule to IB I had conflicts with orchestra too, and my orchestra teacher said “oh I mean clearly you didn’t audition in but id rather you be in first level than quitting orchestra. “ and when I first told him that I could only take first level due to schedule conflicts, he asked me do I really wanted to take [this class] (that’s conflicting with my schedule), and he asked me if I wanted to take other classes instead of the one that’s conflicting. (But later they found a way to make the schedule conflict work without me being in first level) .So I don’t think he wants me to be in first level unless there’s no other option. I really don’t want to make them dislike me😢😢.

Should I talk to my orchestra teacher about this? I can say something like “ I’m actually so passionate about orchestra now, and I want to be in orchestra even after high school. Not gonna lie I did not like orchestra before this year and if the teacher didn’t change then I would actually quit orchestra my junior year(bc our old teacher retired and he’s new this year, and a lot more strict). But now I actually want to be good at it and I’m actually taking it seriously. I think music theory would help me a lot with reading key signatures and intonation. So I want to know what is your opinion about this situation. Do you think I should insist on taking on music or just give up and listen to my counselor?”

Please help and give advices and suggestions, I am really lost and I don’t have anyone to speak to 😭😭😭

I'm trying to buy a better violin, and went to the local shop to try to pick something out. They were very nice and laid out 10 in my price range to try out, and wouldn't you know it, without looking at the labels, I picked out the only two Strad copies in the mix as my favorites.

So my questions are:

1. What makes the "Strad pattern" different from other violin styles? Is it a particular kind of wood or materials or varnish? Or shape? Or adding reinforcement in certain areas? What makes them different?

2. If I see another violin by the same maker (Andreas Morelli) and made at the same time (1920s) which also claims to be a Strad copy, but is $6000 cheaper, is it worth it to fly out to take a look?

If you learned violin in childhood/teens, stopped for years, and have come back to playing, what's it been like? Starting over? Old skills coming back? Any surprises?

Hey there

I'm an amateur violinist, 28 years old, and I enjoy playing orchestra and chamber music with friends. Playing in ensembles keeps me motivated to practice regularly, but when I just want to play something for myself, I often find myself out of ideas and going back to the same ol' pieces that I have practised, sometimes years ago. Given that there's a lot of classical literature for violin, I am sure that I have missed some gems that I would enjoy to play. For reference, here is my current best-of:

• Salut d'Amour, Elgar
• Bruch Violin Concerto, 1st & 2nd movement
• Partita No. 2, Bach
• Schindler's List Theme, Williams
• Melodie, Tschakovsky
• Theme from The Gadfly, Shostakovich
• Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3
• Spring Sonata, Beethoven
• Telemann Solo Sonatas
• The Swan, Saint-Saens

Curious for your suggestions!

My grandfather played the Waltz linked below at all the fiddle competition he played at and would walk around his playing it continuously. I just started playing last fall and I'm not at the point I can play by ear yet, but it doesn't seem overly difficult. I'd love to start practicing it, if someone could write the notes out for me.

He lived in central Missouri and called it the "Saline Waltz" since he lived most is live in Saline County. There are several other videos with the song if you search his name, but this one seems like the best quality. The waltz starts at 1:00 minute.

https://youtu.be/8BTjzr97Mek?feature=shared

Hello everyone,

Hope you are well, this is my first post here.

I am posting because I am desperate for some help, I will be traveling to two destinations this year, and the second holiday will last 10 days.

Now I really want to bring my violin with me, yet I have two questions.

I will be flying with ryanair and I can bring 20kg bag in the flight (which goes into the hold). I bought a small well padded violin case from gewa which would fit inside the 20kg hold bag. My first question is, can I put the violin inside this well padded case, and then wrapped with bubble wrap and clothes in the 20kg case? I could also attach lots of "Fragile" stickers to the bag.

Is it better to just go to the check In and they'll charge me 60 or however many euros for bringing it with me in the flight?

I feel like buying a whole new booking and seat for the violin would be too expensive..

I'm not sure how it works and I really wanted to double check with you guys, thanks for the help!

Any good strategies to keep the neck and spine aligned or at least reduce back pain during and after playing violin? Any specific exercises that work well for you?

...Not interested in pain meds! just exercises, positioning and other tips thanks.

I want to improve my sound and technique and can anyone give any tips on how to learn vibrato .

Hi. As the title states, I went from a second violinist section leader, and fell to last chair as I completely messed up my chair test. I felt my world basically collapse over this. My director keeps saying “chairs don’t matter”, blah blah blah, but his actions prove they do. Section leaders get first pick in everything. Our concertmaster gets everything. I feel bitter and burnt out. I just… Need to know how to bounce back. I’ve been dodging performances and rehearsals since then.

I have played violin for almost a combined nine years. I say combined because I took a break in COVID, but I got back to it. I remember all the techniques I learned, like basic vibrato, the fourteen positions, etc. I have learned the Hungarian dances and started to learn summer, by Vivaldi. I am grade 7, but play grade some 8 and 9 pieces. What do you professionals think?