This happens so many times: as a child or teenager, you got bored with learning the violin and preferred to go and meet your friends. You didn’t want to study alone: you wanted a social life and fun. Now, as an adult, you regret it. You would love to be able to play the violin….
We used to buy expensive complete software suites to write and print music. Now, we need to install something on our Mac or PC to access many online solutions that promise a lot. Ease of use, simplicity to write music, the possibility to record instruments to the score, simplicity to share music and scores, and…
When we look at this incredible engineering feat, the violin, we just wonder how this awesome object can be held together. It is, at the same time, strong and fragile. It can go through time easily: violins from the XVIIth century still exist and are played today.Is a violin glued? The neck is glued to…
Holding the violin just isn’t natural or doesn’t seem natural. Or at least the way we have to twist and hold our left arm to hold the violin. As a consequence, we tend to hold our instrument tight and get tired quickly. And sometimes, pains arrive and stay, hindering our play. Long rehearsals become painful…
Tablatures have been created for guitars or any instruments with frets. The notes still use general conventions for rhythm, but the note itself is replaced by a number. That number is the fret where the finger is. This has several advantages. First, a beginner doesn’t have to learn how to read notes. Then they give…
Everybody has once heard a violinist or fiddler playing with a scratchy sound and slightly out of tune. We all know young children and their first challenging years on the violin… So the violin has a reputation for being a complex instrument. But is it a deserved reputation? On many instruments, like the piano or…