Welcome to our forum. A Message To Our New and Prospective Members . Check out our Forum Rules. Lets keep this forum an enjoyable place to visit.
Private messaging is working again.
Log In
Register
Home
Topic RSS
(8 votes) 
Regulars
Offline
Hello and welcome from Southampton, England. I wish you all the best in your new venture 
Mr Jim 
Advanced member
Offline
yeah i will never complain about how hard bowing is again.... wow now i feel like poo.... (pg13 word)
wow he plays amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Grofica
Member
Offline
Hey everyone.
My violin just came in! I'll try to post a picture later.
Honorary advisor
Regulars
Offline
How cool! Looking forward to it, and to your first video playing it!
Also, since I didn't say so before: Welcome to the forum! I'm an utterly new player too, and as such I can testify that you'll love it here. Everyone is so supportive! 
~ Once you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true. ~
Member
Offline
Almandin said
How cool! Looking forward to it, and to your first video playing it!
Also, since I didn't say so before: Welcome to the forum! I'm an utterly new player too, and as such I can testify that you'll love it here. Everyone is so supportive!
Hi 
I don't think I've welcomed you either so welcome! I really love it here everyone has really been supportive.
Member
Offline
Hi,
I'm back and still no picture, sorry. It's been over a month since I've been on here so you all probably thought. I gave up all ready, but I didn't life just got really busy. I didn't get any farther than tuning it (which I think I did wrong). So I have a ques tion, the strings are G D A E right? That's how I tuned them, but I made the smallest string G and the biggest E. I tried to switch it around, the two middle strings were either too loose or too tight. Remember it's a left handed violin.
Thanks,
Jessi
Honorary advisor
Regulars
Offline
If you've got a left-handed violin, then the rightmost string (when pointing the neck away from you) should be the thickest, am I right? That's the one that needs to be tuned to a G. So for you, going from left to right would be EADG, not GDAE. This is because things inside the violin are placed to enhance the sound of the strings that way. Here's a cool video explaining the whole thing and more:
Good luck! 
~ Once you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true. ~
Regulars
Offline
excellent video Alma!
That guy is very talented...
"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
Member
Offline
Thanks Alma, that video is helpful and so is your answer. Is it ok to tune with the tuning pegs? I've read were people said not to unless I was changing strings. The fine tunes get too tight when I'm tuning the strings on the sides and I'm afraid they are going to break and hit me in the face. If they aren't too tight then the strings are too loose.
Offline
Just to clarify,
Professionals and more advanced players don't even have fine tuners for most strings. Usually only the E string.
Whomever told you not to use the pegs unless changing strings was very mistaken.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
Pro advisor
Regulars
Offline
Elementary school kids like mine are told not to touch the pegs (or fine tuners for that matter) so the thing isnt out of whack for school practice. That might be what you were hearing. I only have the one fine tuner and its now a piece of cake to tune with the pegs. Loosen first then tighten, much easier.
"Please play some wrong notes, so that we know that you are human" - said to Jascha Heifetz.
Honorary advisor
Regulars
Offline
The best way I've found to tune is to loosen the fine tuners completely, then tune with the pegs until you're less than a semitone or so below pitch, and then use the fine tuners to get it perfect. That way they won't be too tight when you need to do fine adjustments in future. 
~ Once you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true. ~
1 Guest(s)
Mouse
Fiddlerman
ELCBK
