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Could Chinese violin finish contain lead?
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Fiddlerman
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EJKiszenia "f-hole air fresheners" NO COMMENT

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PIERRE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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EJKiszenia said

DanielB said
No no no.. don't get *rid* of the campfire smell.

 Just compose 'Campfire Sonata for Violin in G major" or something, and when you play it and people actually smell a campfire for a few seconds, they will think you are just that amazing!   "Such evocative music.. Why for a moment, I could almost actually smell the campfire.."

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LOL, I never thought about that!!  I'll definitely use it!!  Maybe next time I play out, I'll hand out marshmallows!!  tongue

Mine smells like a cross between ice cubes and bar-b q.  roflol

 

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Mine smells like cig. smoke.

Yuck cough.serenade

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Fiddlerman said
EJKiszenia "f-hole air fresheners" NO COMMENT

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Talk about violin's taking on a personality of their own!  I guess I'm not the only one who has a fiddle with it's own "scent!" LOL  

My rescue violin (after playing it for a while) smells like cigar's/Pipe tobacco and English Leather! LOL  

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A violin "air freshener" wouldn't be that hard to make.  Though I'd say it would be more marketable to call it a "custom scenter for string instruments" or something.

Find a pen cap or small marker cap that will fit snugly in the round "dot" of an F without needing to be jammed in or so loose it might fall into the body of the instrument.  Drill out the closed end of the cap, so it is more of a tapered tube.  Then take 3 little pieces of cotton.  Roll one into a little ball and stuff it into the cap.  Then make another little cotton ball and put a drop of an essential oil or scent oil or cologne you like on it.  Put it into the cap.  Then put in another little ball of cotton.

That way there isn't much (if any) risk of and of the essential/scented oil or cologne dripping and getting on the wood.  Not a lot of risk anyway, since it would only take a drop on the cotton.

Bet it would change the scent of a violin (and case, if it is kept in the case) within a week or so at most. 

I scent some of my instruments by just keeping a scented item or a cottonball with a drop of some scent in a little bag in the case.  But the violin isn't as open to the air as a guitar or oud is.  So it would take longer, and something that could put a little scent both inside and outside would likely work better/faster on a violin/fiddle.

People can laugh, but the scent of an instrument is part of the experience of playing it, especially with something like a violin where it is so close to the player's face.  If one doesn't like the smell, it only makes sense to change it to something one likes better and that might even put the player into a playing sort of mood.  Done carefully, I don't think it would risk hurting the instrument. 

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*takes notes*

That's a GREAT idea!!!  I'll have to find a tube that works because a pen cap seems a bit too big.  If I can find something small enough, I could even fasten a paper clip to it to keep it from falling in!  

I know the scented oils my wife gets for those plug-in scents come in a little vile/tube.  I'll have to see if they fit!  

I'm really surprised that no ones marketed this idea yet!!  thumbs-up

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