As Oliver suggested, a members video section would be great and I know I'd use it. Also Genre sections would be nice.  Irish,scottish,english,cape breton styles  under one section, Bluegrass,old time and country another,rock another ,Classical another, you get the picture.

Also a "share a lesson" section would be cool where members could share tunes/pieces.

This forum is going to grow and has the potential to become one of the top 5 violin/fiddle forums I believe. The time to organize is now. The mistake Ive seen some of the leading sites make is discrimination.  Classical, fiddlers and rockers all share the same problems as we play the same instrument.  Ive seen fiddle sites put down classical players and Classical sites snub fiddlers.

to use a quote from the movie Braveheart…"Unite the Clans !! " 

I totally agree with all of you. I understand what Fiddlerman must be going through to keep this forum going as it grows. I had a free guitar lessons forum (mid 90s to 2009) that was totally shut down by me do to so many reasons that I could not control on my own.

Nobody was willing to help me…They all just wanted the free stuff. I was going to re-launch my site but it will take some time because of people not willing to help anyone but themselves.

Fiddlerman has a "Donate" button. If you have any extra change in your heart, maybe you should think about that.

My 2 cents of thought