It can be a bit nerve-racking to travel with your most prized violin. So many things can go wrong… theft, heat, shocks. Choose good insurance and a sturdy violin case. Loosen your strings and bow hair. Keep your violin in a climate-controlled room if possible. Monitor hygrometry changes and responds with silica gel desiccant or…
That raw sound, lay-down music, that touches our guts… I am talking about the blues. Blues is mostly associated with the guitar, though, or sometimes piano, saxophone, harmonica… but few people think about the violin in that context. But it is not uncommon to hear the violin playing the blues, except that it is called…
Depending on how much you play, you need to change strings from every month to every year, but you need to do it; an old string doesn’t only lose the edge to the sound but also becomes false and you will find it harder to play in tune. Change strings one at a time. Clean…
To play the violin, you need to be a master of invention, as the great Nathan Milstein put it. And the electric violin is the perfect tool to achieve that: you can play many types of music, ranging from Rock and Blues, to Bluegrass and Jazz, Country, Cajun, Irish, and even Classical Indian music. The…
As lovely as the violin sounds, its volume has been the detriment to many players’ confidence, and even consideration, of picking the instrument up for a long time. It’s no wonder that electric violins have become so popular over the years considering that fact. Still, can an electric violin completely eradicate that problem? Electric violins…
Violins are known to be magical instruments with prices reaching every year new heights. But it is a completely different story with electric violins. Have electric violins commoditized the price of those instruments? By being build in factories and in mass production, they certainly have. The revolution that happened with the guitar (Fender Stratocaster for…