Before youremove paintfrom your guitar, remove the hardware to get it out of the way. This means unscrewing the bridge, removing the strings, the neck if possible, and anything else on your guitar body. You then must make sure your guitar body is clean, so wipe it with a damp cloth a...
I hope that you find it helpful, especially if you find yourself needing to change your violin strings at home for the first time, without help from a teacher or music store. I've been doing this for 40 years, and at the beginning, I had a violin with extremely difficult pegs (four ...
Change one string at a time.If you remove all the strings and relieve the pressure on the top of the bass, the sound post (wooden dowel under the G-side bridge foot spanning front to back) can fall. It’s held in only by the pressure of the bridge against the top of the bass. ...
- Always wipe down your violin’s strings and body after playing with a clean cloth to remove the rosin dust that has accumulated. Make sure you clean that cloth regularly … or you will only spread again the rosin dust you have removed the previous days!!Learn maintenance tips for your v...
Keep the bow at a little bit of tension while the hair is drying. Do not allow water to wick into the wedge After about an hour adjust the tension again on the stick because as the hair dries, it gets a little shorter After the hair is dry, apply powdered rosin to violin, viola, ...
In order to use new rosin on a new violin bow, you'll need to be gentle with both the rosin and the bow. The new bow isn't yet used to the tension of heavy playing, and the rosin doesn't yet have a groove for the bow to slide smoothly. Make sure to prepare the rosin before...
Stick to simpler cleaning methods instead, like wiping off your strings with a dry cloth.[6] If alcohol gets on your violin, it may damage the finish.[7] 2 Don’t clean your violin strings with water. A water-soaked cloth will remove some of your rosin dust, but it won’t make...
This is usually attached to the violin when the violin is built. Aside from that, be sure you have some rosin (coagulated sap) for your bow, a music stand, and a book of beginner lessons or songs, preferably in a format that will open flat. Some violinists, especially beginners, ...
You’ll have to remove the bridge and reinsert it the right way. 2 Loosen the strings just enough to move the bridge underneath them. To avoid snapping a string, loosen them slightly by turning the pegs in the peg box on the end of the violin.[3] The strings should be loose enough...