Fiddler without a fiddle?! WHA?!

[shadowrune]

Hello, fellow friends and fiddlers. Do not attempt to adjust your computer screen. You read correctly, I have no fiddle! Hopefuly I'll get one by Saturday! My very own. You see, my school was able to sign one out for me, but when I left there I had to give it back. I asked my teacher if I could buy it of him, but he said he wished he could, because

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[fiddle_dragon]

clove oil works for tooth pain :P tastes horrible though!

I have a violin that does need some repair work done - one person says the peg holes need to be rebushed - other people say it can be done less expensively. In any case, it's a fairly inexpensive violin (was ~$450 new),and one I'm not going to be using as I have no received and use regularly, my grandfather's violin, and am considering selling....and would be willing to discuss it with you.

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[shadowrune]

Sorry, can't accept online deals anyway. Also, for a little over 500 here, you get a very good quality violin! Where have [i]you[/i] been shopping?!

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[fiddle_dragon]

If someone is telling you that a $500 violin is a *very good quality* violin, they're lying to you. You can get an ok beginner/student violin these days for around $400-800 dollars. A truly good beginner violin costs around $1200.

That being said - for some things, a $50 violin will work quite well. But as someone who is supportive of both classical and fiddle playing, I'll highly recommend a beginner to go to their local music store, and rent an ok beginner model and buy up if still interested, or if pursuing violin seriously, consider upgrading to a better violin.

That being said - until I inherited my grandfather's violin, I quite happily played in a community orchestra and out at rennaissance festivals, etc., on an "ok student model". There's nothing wrong with them, in general for the average non-professional or serious student. But I have also noticed that the quality of the violin does count when you're learning - and sometimes plateaus aren't always in player ability, but in instrument limitations.

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[shadowrune]

Hmm. Perhaps he left out "for a student player", when he said "Good quality. I have seen in the newspaper ads, a violin in San Francisco seeling for 12 grand. That's paying too much I think....

[tarimanveri]

Well, getting your own fiddle is certainly exciting. When I first started I was playing my dad's, and then mine just sort of fell into my hands - my grandpa gave me the one that was his and his mother's. Enjoy it when it arrives!

As far as braces, I've definitely been there. When I first got mine on I had this wire thing going across the roof of my mouth and couldn't swallow without serious pain as it cut into my tongue, but from later tightening-and-tweaking experience I can say that the best solution I came up with was milkshakes, soup, and patience.

Although some tylenol might help too.

[shadowrune]

Wow. Like a treasure passed down through the generations... I think I may do that when I growup a little more. Mmm... Milkshakes... *does Homer Simpson impresion* Aughhhh....

[crysania4]

I don't have a fiddle right now either...it's in the shop getting the bridge adjusted...I miss it!

[shadowrune]

Poor you. It's it regular wear-and-tear or did something horrible happen to it?

[crysania4]

Nothing bad happened at all...it's a new (CHEAP) fiddle and the bridge is apparently a bit too high and too even...so I had to take it in to get it sanded down a bit. So luckily, it's a minor thing... :-) But it still sucks being without it! My friend left her really GOOD violin here and told me I could practice on it...but I'm too scared to touch such an expensive instrument...lol

[shadowrune]

Whew! Now, if you baught that new violin because you dropped your old one, then I'd be worried about the nice violin.

Between being called Toto (little boy) in front of my friends...

[shadowrune]

Man, everyone has a name for their fiddles huh? I have a pad I put in my mouth so I can bite down long then release, sorta like a stress ball you squeeze in your palm.