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Ask a Luthier
Questions about violin set-up and repair!
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cdennyb
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Fiddlerman said
I understand but fiddlerguy is not me. It's a user with a completely different username and email address. He has not been active but he is a user. :(

I just wonder how @Fiddlerman can turn into another user?

I may just delete fiddlerguy since that username is not active anyway.  

should go thru the list and delete ALL the non-members with just an original post months ago as they aren't active either and if the user name is available to a new member that would be great.

"If you practice with your hands you must practice all day. Practice with your mind and you can accomplish the same amount in minutes." Nathan Milstein

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Fiddlerman
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The first three videos.

"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."

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Excellent videos, gentlemen.  My apologies, I didn't actually listen perhaps to the first video.  I will send in some emails regarding my future questions.  Thank you for all the good information so far!

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This "Ask a Luthier"-thing is great stuff! Keep them coming ?  .

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OK, so I watched all your videos so far and immediately decided to tackle bridge resurrection on my old violin. I shook it out and got organized with my setting tool and tried for 2 hours to set it but it wouldn't stay, just kept falling. So I put it away and thought about it and then decided my major mistake was, no strings, no tension at all. Tonight I took all the goodies received from the Fiddleshop recently and put the tailpiece on, and set up the strings, fiddled with bridge and finally was happy with some reasonable pressure and tension on the strings. I got my sound post tool and voila, first try it stuck. Then adjusted a bit to make it feel more stable and tuned the strings a bit more, and finally played a bit on it. Woo hoo! Will play it for a week or two and then maybe do a few recordings of my other violin and this one to see the difference.

Thanks for the excellent videos. Very good help.

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Hi there all,

Since I'm change out all the hardware on my new to me violin. I was wondering is it better to fit the pegs to the pegbox ( use a peg shaver) or the pegbox to the pegs ( use a ream). since with the shaver you risk only the cost of the pegs vs the ream and potential lost of violin?

thanks again for being here.

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