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Topic: Problem with Bow losing hair |
Leucippus
Replies: 17
Views: 47988
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:05 pm Subject: Problem with Bow losing hair |
Leu - First, I just want to tell you that my viola bow produced an even better tone the second day.
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Anyhoo, I have rinsed a second (good) bow this morning, as I am so pleased with the resu ... |
Topic: Problem with Bow losing hair |
Leucippus
Replies: 17
Views: 47988
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:35 am Subject: Re: wetting bow hair |
fascinating discussion...hope a bowmaker will weigh in here on whether this is actually to be recommended for expensive bows...
I have no clue.
But I have seen humidity contolled bow cases. I ... |
Topic: Problem with Bow losing hair |
Leucippus
Replies: 17
Views: 47988
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:52 pm Subject: Problem with Bow losing hair |
Hi Shirely,
I'm glad to hear that you had positive results with re-humidifying the bow hair.
It definitely helped my bows during the winter months. As I say, they also quit shedding. If the h ... |
Topic: Problem with Bow losing hair |
Leucippus
Replies: 17
Views: 47988
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:21 pm Subject: Problem with Bow losing hair |
I don't know if this will be related to your experience or not, but I'll share an exerience I had in the past.
It was wintertime and I was heating with wood. The air was dry and it was sucking moi ... |
Topic: Learning the Rebec |
Leucippus
Replies: 4
Views: 13594
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:44 pm Subject: Learning the Rebec |
the tuning is DAE. We tried to keep the instrument historically more accurate on the outside, so we used gut strings.
I don't know what to say then.
I have a gut-string violin and I find it ext ... |
Topic: Are shoulder rests necessary? |
Leucippus
Replies: 86
Views: 168834
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:36 pm Subject: Re: Are shoulder rests necessary? |
Hi, i'm new to violin as well as this forum.
I've been playing maybe a month now and I haven't been using a shoulder rest. Should i invest in one? Are they a good idea for beginners?
Thanks in ... |
Topic: Learning the Rebec |
Leucippus
Replies: 4
Views: 13594
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:44 pm Subject: Learning the Rebec |
From pegs to bridge, the distance is maybe 9 inches. I am learning of the tiny changes in the pegs, leading to large changes in tuning! Wow is this thing hard to tune!
What kind of strings are yo ... |
Topic: Need help identifying a violin |
Leucippus
Replies: 6
Views: 15907
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:58 pm Subject: Need help identifying a violin |
Here are the photos of cohmian's violin
http://users.csonline.net/designer/ideas/violin-1.jpg
http://users.csonline.net/designer/ideas/violin-2.jpg
http://users.csonline.net/designer/ideas/vi ... |
Topic: Fantasy for Violin and Guitar |
Leucippus
Replies: 0
Views: 9005
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:15 pm Subject: Fantasy for Violin and Guitar |
I wrote this short fantasy piece for Violin and Guitar.
Ok, I simply must confess. I actually wrote it originally for the flute and guitar. But I have since been playing the flute part on the vi ... |
Topic: "For my Mother" for violin and piano |
Leucippus
Replies: 5
Views: 14395
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Forum: Musician's Forum Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:39 pm Subject: Bravo! |
Wow André, this is really nice!
Did you write both the violin and piano parts? This is pretty incredible for only two weeks of composition!
I take it that you wrote this in a computer music pr ... |
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