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  Topic: Problem with Bow losing hair
Leucippus

Replies: 17
Views: 47988

PostForum: 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.

...

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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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

PostForum: 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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