Violin Maintenance: What You Can Do Yourself Keeping your violin in top shape will help your violin produce the most beautiful resonant sound that it is capable of. Some aspects of violin maintenance are best left to a competent violin maker, but there are many things...

To develop a smooth and even sound on the violin, the movement of our fingers holding the bow plays an important role. The two functions of the fingers are to control the bows direction and to absorb the raw movement of our bow-arm. The fingers...

Vibrato Dynamics When performing vibrato on the violin, we manipulate the pitch by rolling our finger up and down the fingerboard. However, several factors, beyond just pitch change, characterize the vibrato’s sound. The changing structure of the finger’s skin - rolling from the softer pad to...

GDPR Cookie Consent with Real Cookie Banner