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Violin maintenance goes on as long as the instrument is to be kept in playing condition, and includes tasks such as replacing strings, positioning the soundpost and bridge, lubricating pegs and fine tuners, resurfacing the fingerboard, attending to the instrument's finish, and restoring, repairing, or replacing parts of the violin or its ...
A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a finger board, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings.The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and in the modern style of playing, usually a chinrest, either attached with the cup directly over the tailpiece or to the left of it.
The product portfolio expanded steadily during the 1980s and 1990s. Violin accessories and spinning machines for strings and ball ends were added, but the newly introduced products did not achieve the same success as the guitar components. [15] This expansion ended after the deaths of Helmut Schaller in 1999 and his son René Schaller in 1998.
A violin tailpiece. Here, the two strings on the far side pass through the keyhole slots directly, but the nearer two strings use fine tuners. Fine tuners are used on the tailpiece of some stringed instruments, as a supplement to the tapered pegs at the other end. Tapered pegs are harder to use to make small adjustments to pitch.
A shoulder rest, whatever its design, is an accessory to facilitate holding the instrument in place while playing. This can lighten the task of the left hand, enabling smoother and lighter shifting technique. All rests must make a compromise between violin support and freedom (or flexibility in holding the violin).
Brass instrument parts and accessories (12 P) D. Drum kit components (1 C, 39 P) P. Percussion instrument beaters (12 P) S. String instrument construction (3 C, 41 P) W.
Musafia is an Italian manufacturer of violin cases. They specialise in high-end violin cases, which are handmade at their workshop in Cremona, Italy. Their cases are internationally renowned [1] [2] and are used by many leading soloists including Sarah Chang, Joshua Bell, Salvatore Accardo, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Isaac Stern, Uto Ughi, and Chloë ...
The frogs of a violin bow, viola bow and cello bow Close-up of frog of a violin bow (K. Gerhard Penzel) Frogs of the French and German double bass bows. The bow frog is the end part of a stringed musical instrument's bow that encloses the mechanism responsible for tightening and holding the bow hair ribbon.
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