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Your fiddle teacher would be happy to help you find a decent instrument. And if you don't have a teacher, get one. There are too many bad habits that are too easy to fall into on the violin and are...

And Woohoo here too! Burnishing my new scraper had me floumuxed for a while. Thanks to everyone who posting links in this topic. I've been lurking and learning. I ended up buying this burnishing tool...

There will be some things a small child can't do. Part of the magic of the Suzuki Method is that the material is written with the expectation that very young children will be playing it, and the...

I'll second that. And add:

Have recordings on all the time, they will learn what they listen to. My daughter started going to group violin lessons while she was 2, using a pretend violin, in a...

The key is finding a teacher with whom you can communicate. At some point, you need to reach a meeting of the minds about how to get you to where you want to go. As mentioned above, it pays to know...

Get her a fiddle!!!!!

My daughter was 2 when she started violin. Find a good, qualified, Suzuki Method violin teacher. The action on a violin is easy, and they are made in all sizes for even very...

Gryphon is an absolutely great dealer. (I, too, am lucky enough to live close by.)

This should be a wake up call to Gibson. When they start driving away great dealers like Gryphon, something is...

hee hee.... there used to be a music store something like that in a little town in the Sierra foothills that I frequent. The sign on the door said: "Hours: Open when I'm here, closed when I'm not."

OK, guys, now I have a serious case of bandsaw envy...

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I have a historical question that can be filed under "dumb newbie questions": Stradavarius did not...

Sometimes it is the instrument. Last fall I heard a vintage open-back Vega tenor. What a mellow instrument -- really sounded nice.

Then again, just this morning I heard a graduate of Curtis (a...

International Luthiers lists a set of bowl back plans in there on line catalog. I know zip about them. -dave

Sunburst, Do you think a beginner (like me :-) should even mess with hide glue for a top/back joint? That joint doesn't really need to be reversable. I was thinking Titebond for the top/back plate...

Cactus, I see you are up in Sonoma. If you ever get as far south as Palo Alto, Gryphon always has a few Collings hanging on the wall.

ummm... try your searching again. there have been quite a few discussions of radius here in the cafe... maybe not all in the builder's forum, though. i do recall somewhere in the builders forum there...

Well, I'm a big fan of saturation listening. Pick a handful of tunes that you want to learn, make a CD of just those, and loop it up for, oh say, 6 hours a day. Not loud, just as background, all the...

Musician's Friend is big. I've dealt with them a lot on electronics, accessories, or anything that is just fine out of the box. They take the box off the boat as it comes in from China and ship it to...

I gotta say that the first time I saw an Eastman hanging on the wall at Gryphon I was very impressed with how it sounded and with the playability, but that logo did put me off. I know it shouldn't...

I wear "progressive lens bifocals", mine happen to be made by Kodak. Basically, instead of having a distance lens with a reading lens set into it, progressives or "blended" lenses gently change from...

OK, dumb question time. What is the reference point for moisture content in wood. 114% sounds to me more like a tub of water with some bits of wood floating in it. I must be missing something... like...

As to listening hours and hours -- yes. My daughter, age 5 1/2, is a Suzuki Method violin student. Her teacher advises listening to the reference recordings 6 or more hours per day. Not loud, but at...

In truth, my daughter (5 1/2) has requested a dinosaur violin -- Scroll carved to be a T. Rex head, with stegosaurus tuning pegs. This is no joke. I'd happily get a decent 1/10 violin, strip the...

Gryphon has a couple in their inventory right now, with photos on line. The last time I was in there I played both the MT's that were hanging on the wall. I haven't played anything in that price...

I particularly like "light explosives now..."

We played a piece in high school band where some lucky (and responsible!) percussionist got to fire two rounds from a starter's pistol into a garbage...

I can't resist a kid's music thread. I'm doing violin with my daughter -- she is 5 1/2. Why violin? As someone mentioned it comes in all sizes. Secondly, I find it a very logical instrument -- my...

mad dawg:

Well, I'm no luthier, but I just happen to have a 1/32 size violin in the closet around the corner from the computer. I dug it out and measured it at a tiny fraction under 7 inches from...