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I have a 7/8 violin but I dun want to use 4/4 size strings.
Any good strings are designed for 7/8 violin?
thx
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Its an interesting topic. Thx Woodland to bring it up
here.
I sold a violin to my friend's niece few months ago. She
returned it to me after 2 days coz her teacher was very rude to her
after she bought the violin from me instead of buying one from the
shop which her teacher recommend. Later I know that shop
offer 30% commission to teachers and teach those so called teachers
told their students that their violins are made in Italy which in
fact those are just Scott Cao violins which made in China.
Its almost can't eliminate the under table transaction in
most of the industries. I just hope the consumers use their
mind and use some time to do some research on how to pick a
suitable violin instead of just totally listen to those so
called teachers advice.
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wow, excellent Manfio.
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Thx guys. Then how you remove the label?
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What kind of paper you use for printing the label? And do you
guys use printer to print it or handwriting?
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thx a lot, Tomroth.
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I have a bottle of Super Nikcoclair. Its for removing the
shinny varnish. Since I can't find it anymore, is there any
substitution for it?
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yea, I know International Violin provide much better service.
But I have to order different kinds of products include
strings in large amount not only tools, so HC was my
first priority. Now I gotta look for other companies
which can provide me all kinds of things in competitive price and
they are not rude to overseas buyers.
Honestly, I dun understand why its so hard for them to reply
customers' email....And I can't even find their contact tel number
on their webpage..
hmmm....very interesting company
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I did talk to Kim by making an international call. But
unfortunately I still can't get her email reply which she promised
to do so. Now I know that this company or Kim herself doesn't
like to deal with international order. Its nonsense for
overseas buyer to keep calling them in order to make and receive
the order.
Extremely disappointed with this company
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I'm sorry this topic should belong to The Pegbox instead of here.
Can the moderator move it back to The Pegbox?
many thx
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Anybody deal with them before?
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quote:Originally posted by:WolfjkHi Alix,quote:Now mostof my violins have buzzing problems due to the climate change. I'vetried to change strings, change accessories, move bridges....Unfortunately more I do, more buzzing sound comes out.quote:Iexperimented with moving the bridge about, and moving the stringson top of the bridge to different positions. The relationship ofthe bass bar and the foot of the bridge is very important for thebalance of the strings. When you move the bridge left or right thedownward pressure changes and the balance of the strings change.Also when you move the bridge, the strings might pull towards oneside or the other, depending which way you moved thebridge.
yes, that's what I'm thinking. My luthier did told me the
bass bar is not in a correct position. But I've tried to move
the bridge many times, I still can't get the original sound.
The only thing I can do is diminish the buzzing but can't
eliminate it. But I will keep testing.
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Thx for all your advice. I have checked and removed and
changed everything, still have no improvement. My local
luthier already told me the violin is fine so its impossible to
have cracks on the violin. The label is also fine. As I
said, the change due to the bridge has been tiny moved. I
still think its the problem of the bridge position. But guess
what, I will meet the luthier soon so hopefully he can explain
what's going on with that buzzing G strings.
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Is there any improvement of Howard Call's email order system?
Do you guys still need to wait for above 1 month to get your
order?
My friend told me Kim is responsible for ordering in Howard Core
but she seems not very reliable, Is it true? I do want to buy
some tools from them coz I can't find other online shop provide
what I need. But if I have to keep email and call them in
order to get the order, I would rather choose to order from
European companies even tho the price is much more higher.
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Hi C.B.
I've tried different bows already, still haven't solve the problem.
And its not only the buzzing, its also the original beauty of
A and E strings totally disappeared.
sobbing now
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Hi Manfio,
Thx for your advice. THe buzzing is mainly from G
string. I've tried to change the strings, remove
chinrest, remove finer tuner, change tailpiece, move bridge, remove
A and E strings, clean the dust on bass bar. But the sound
still haven't improved. But when I tiny move the bridge, the
buzzing is diminish a bit but still obvious. I really dunno
what's going on. And if initially I know moving the bridge
will destroy the sound greatly of that violin, I will never touch
the bridge.
crying now.....
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Now most of my violins have buzzing problems due to the climate
change. I've tried to change strings, change accessories,
move bridges.... Unfortunately more I do, more buzzing
sound comes out.
One of my lovely antique French violin keeps buzzing seriously
these few weeks. Its not due to the climate change, its coz
of I moved the bridge a bit. Now the sound is completely lose
the original beauty. I've asked my local luthier to fix the
problem, but he said it maybe the fingerboard's problem, bass bar
problem, pegs problem, strings problem, etc. But for me its
no point to do all those big "operation" coz the violin is good
until I move the bridge towards bassbar a bit.
Its impossible for me to go to Paris and ask the luthier to re
setup everything for me (I'm sure he knows the secret of where to
put the bridge on the best place of that violin, otherwise it
can't
be that big change after I just tiny move the bridge).
What should I do now?
Sigh
Alix
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thx all. But if there is no difference between loop end and
ball end, why there are two products in the market? There
must be sth different between two, otherwise I'm sure after
breaking several gold E loop strings, nobody willing to use loop
end strings anymore.
btw, Allan, thx for your advice on improving my antique violin's G,
D strings sound. Now G is louder but always have
siiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiii sound when I play the G
string, and the D still weak. I'm wondering what happened and
very worry whether there are cracks on the top which create that
sound. I still dunno how to distinguish the real cracks and
just scratch, can anybody teach me how to distinguish between two?
Recently I'm too poor to go to luthiers to fix my violins
problem so I gotta solve all those problem by myself.
And its a good excuse to push myself learning some basic
repairing technique now.
many thx
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I've put the beautiful hill type golden fine tuner for my e loop
end string this morning. When I was trying to put
the new Evah pirazzi gold E string on it, it broke.
Its really heartbreaking. How can I install the loop E
string in safety way? Is it coz of the design problem of
the hill type fine tuner so the E loop strings easily broke?
And I really want to know what's the difference of sound between
ball end and loop end strings.
thx
Alix
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I just bought one French violin which is about 100 yrs. The
sound is so warm and sweet (n I can say its too sweet).
However, G and D strings are too weak. I've tried
dominant and Evah Pirazzai, both of them can't make the G, C
strings louder. What strings can improve it?
many thx
ALix
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Hi vlngeek, thx for your info. But did you find it enhance
the sound? And which model you've been tried?
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yea, I bought some Warchal strings set from him.
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No, I haven't got any reply from them. So I try to ring them
several time this morning but the phone connects to the msg box.
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Anybody use it before? I've heard that it enhance the sound
but its a heavy shoulder rest. I try to email and call them
but never get any reply.
"German" violin bridge
in The Pegbox
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yes, I got one. But its on a cheap student violin. I
threw it into trash right away when I saw it. lol