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Ask the Experts: the art of violin: Q and A:
1. I am an adult who plays for pleasure with a goal of being accepted into one of the Boston area's better amateur orchestras. I am in the market for a new violin. I have been to a number of fine string instrument shops in Boston and other cities and have found that few people are able to articulate clear standards for judging an instrument. I understand that it is subjective, but I am wondering what I should look for in an instrument in terms of tone. There must be some objective guidelines that can help me in selecting an instrument.
Answer: When evaluating the tone of an instrument, I find it most helpful to differentiate between matters of fact and matters of opinion.
Matters of fact include whether the instrument is balanced dynamically (Is each string as loud as the next?) and whether the instrument is balanced tonally (Does each string have the same tone color or timbre as the next, or does the tone color from the lowest to the highest string change in a smooth transition?). Dynamic imbalances can often be addressed with a soundpost adjustment. Tone color imbalances can often be addressed either with a soundpost adjustment or by changing some or all of the strings. Remember that the tone of strings that have stretched out and lost their resiliency will suffer both in volume and in tone color ...
1. I am an adult who plays for pleasure with a goal of being accepted into one of the Boston area's better amateur orchestras. I am in the market for a new violin. I have been to a number of fine string instrument shops in Boston and other cities and have found that few people are able to articulate clear standards for judging an instrument. I understand that it is subjective, but I am wondering what I should look for in an instrument in terms of tone. There must be some objective guidelines that can help me in selecting an instrument.
Answer: When evaluating the tone of an instrument, I find it most helpful to differentiate between matters of fact and matters of opinion.
Matters of fact include whether the instrument is balanced dynamically (Is each string as loud as the next?) and whether the instrument is balanced tonally (Does each string have the same tone color or timbre as the next, or does the tone color from the lowest to the highest string change in a smooth transition?). Dynamic imbalances can often be addressed with a soundpost adjustment. Tone color imbalances can often be addressed either with a soundpost adjustment or by changing some or all of the strings. Remember that the tone of strings that have stretched out and lost their resiliency will suffer both in volume and in tone color ...
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1 The parts of the violin
1.1 Materials
1.2 Violin acoustics
1.3 Sizes
2 Playing the violin
2.1 Fingering and positions
2.2 Open strings
2.3 Double-stopping
2.4 Pizzicato
2.5 Vibrato
2.6 Harmonics
2.7 The mute
2.8 Bowing techniques
3 Tuning
4 Making Violins
5 Maintenance
6 Violin history
6.1 The violin in classical music
6.2 The violin in folk music ...
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