Re: Mandolin world vs fiddle world
Originally Posted by
JeffD
Like classical violinists do not use fine tuners, or if they do it is only on the e string. While fiddlers, often enough, use fine tuners on all the strings. The claim is that one can tell if the string is directly connected to the tail piece or not - or more precisely, only the more advanced and cultured and refined violinists have the perception and discernment and sensitivity to detect how much better a string direct to tail piece sounds and the refinement to care about it.
I myself, having spent much more time in the fiddle world than in the violin world, appreciate an instrument that is in tune, and if it takes fine tuners to get there, so be it.
Some of the really amazing violinists I have heard can get really amazing tone - and I think there may be a more things involved than merely eschewing fine tuners.
Actually, the reason more classical violinists use one fine tuner and fiddlers tend to use four fine tuners is due to the kind of string used. Gut and synthetic core strings can be easily tuned with the pegs. Most people now use metal e-strings, so both camps use the fine tuners for that string. When metal core strings became popular (especially with fiddlers and folks musicians), it was helpful to have fine tuners on all four strings. (It is still common for new classical players to have tuners on all four strings even with synthetic core strings, and some classical players continue to use tune tuners.)
By the way, folks who use mechanical pegs might not have fine tuners at all! (I still like having fine tuners on the one violin I play that has mechanical tuners.)
Last edited by Doug Brock; Mar-21-2021 at 1:42pm.
Doug Brock
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