Not if you play your cards right. Playing the violin definitely can impair your hearing, but it’s not like picking up the instrument comes with the understanding that you’re going to ruin your ears along the way. There’s plenty you can do, and plenty that violinists have done for years, to keep your most important…

These are the best of the best, the crème de la crème. I wanted to share with you the violinists I love. They have accompanied me throughout my life and career. Of course, choosing is hard and cruel. So I will present many other violinists to you, later on in my blog. But these “11…

Table of Contents Play the violin without a shoulder rest Play the violin without a chin rest A violin without a bridge Play the violin without a soundpost A violin without fine-tuners A violin without strings A violin without a bow Can I play the violin without a shoulder rest Is it possible to play…

The main difference is about twenty years of training and no one minds if you spill beer on a fiddle. Kidding aside, though, the two instruments are actually the same thing despite how radically different their musical associations are. Surely there’s some kind of difference for there to be such a distinction though, right? Well,…

So you have to replace your bridge. I have resisted the urge to touch a violin’s bridge for so many years that you scare me! But maybe your strings changing have gone wrong, or you have just received a violin without a bridge in place. So, read on. To place the bridge on a violin,…

These are the films that I found most interesting about playing the violin and music in general. I recommend watching them and being inspired by them for any serious student, whether beginner or intermediate. The Art of Violin Nathan Milstein: In portrait Yehudi Menuhin: The violin of the century The Soviet Violin School The Art…