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Is the Violin a difficult instrument to play for a beginner? Yes. I am sorry if this question is too opinionated. ...yes..? The truth is I have just booked my first violin lesson for next week. … I do think French horn is damn hard, but I don't think one can say that violin is easier. Is the violin really something that shouldn't be entered lightly? …

effect; only when you reduce it to 2 that doesn't quite work any more (then, the small pitch deviations become a noticeable phasing / beat, rather than everything blending smoothly together), and a single violin …

alephzero has a point – with a Tourte bow, you could play something like 80% of all notes in the “wrong” direction and still get virtually the same sound. Indeed some solo players are known to play pa …

Since violin e-strings are cheap and inevitably prone to snapping, due to their thinness and high tension, I wouldn't think to much of it. … It is also possible that the reason for the snapping is something to do with the violin itself, concretely with either the bridge or the nut. …

I have the The Realist on my cello (not the violin version obviously, but it should be comparable) and I'm content with it. …

Wood "lives". Certainly the sound of a wooden instrument can change over time. Most obvious, if the wood wasn't expertly selected and dried there's a high danger of deforming later, this will usually …

In fact it's a bit comparable to the action of the bow hair on the string – not really relevant on violin where you have a proper bow to sustain notes, but this phenomenon is quite desired by guitar players …

I consider that notation problematic, but it almost certainly means you should play a D6 as the fourth harmonic of the open D-string. That mode can be obtained as a flageolett-stopped note with the fi …

because the bow comes from the other side anyway; it might well be worth trying to play a standard-strung violin the other way around.If you do re-string the violin, you'll face the next construction-rooted … This means you can use a right-handed violin with inverted strings, it will not sould dramatically different. …

Perhaps the string is just badly manufactured... this happens sometimes (most often in cheaper strings, but I've also had a few faulty ones where the price should have suggested better quality). Like …

What you did, dropping down a section by an octave, is not only a perfectly usable option but actually makes for a nice contrast without adding anything that distracts from the folky simplicity. The l …

I would normally tend to recommend violin, but as you're asking specifically about what to learn during lockdown: definitely piano. … If the quarantine by itself doesn't drive you mad, then the violin likely would. …

To do this, rest the violin head sideways on a thin piece of wood, e.g. a ruler sitting on its edge on a stack of books. The violin body is best placed on a pillow. … The ruler should touch the violin head right next to the peg in question. The peg itself should “hang in the air”. Make sure the height of the book-stack is so that the violin neck is horizontal. …

"the right hand is used for most tasks that require exacting manipulation: writing, throwing, etc." Are these really tasks that require exacting manipulation? I would not say so, they require exactin …

“Out of flow” may also be an issue, though perhaps less with violin/viola than with cello/bass, because they bow in fact more up/down than left/right, and are in that sense somewhat parity invariant. …