Mansfield Piggot

My friends call me Mansfield

I've heard some Eb playing that sounded pretty resonant...

Why is D major considered bright, but Eb, a half step higher, considered somber? It's hard to picture Mozart's D major concerto in Eb, and hard to picture his Symphonie Concertante in D major. Why are they in different keys? Now, A432 is almost a quarter tone flat, a difference as perceptible as a half step is. And that's combined with an actual physical change to the instrument (looser stings)...

Checking it out just how, I noticed he won't ship violins worth more than $1000!

Under the table might work okay. I had a thermometer pop in my fingers in direct Texas sun.

I've determined that if you tune your violin and leave it in its case for a month or two, or longer, it will naturally try to come down toward 432

Would this nice old man really change your tuning to destroy civilization? I suspect he has better things to do, usually. https://youtu.be/3O4i4fRALu4?t=661

Note he never implies anything about the sound of the wood. His interest in the wood is its unfathomable age, wood from around the dawn of civilization. In fact it sounds a lot like his other guitars.

The basic problem is nobody gets rich making violins, while at the same time money does in fact buy happiness, despite what the poors claim.

Are undocumented luthiers becoming a problem?

A guy makes a guitar out of wood from 3,000 BC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJrNuPneORk

One reason might be most gun stores of any size carry the Birchwood-Casey line of products. Tru-Oil, bluing, targets, bench rests, cases, cleaning supplies, and probably camo makeup . I always thought of it as like not the best of any one product, but a filled out line of products

This by Michael Darnton is a stabilized approach to fitting a bridge. Go to about page 22. https://violinmag.com/book/setup.pdf The rest of the book: https://violinmag.com

It can definitely be made serviceable. I have one with the same break and somebody just slapped it together with epoxy, maybe even thick superglue, without even lining it up. It's had string tension on it for maybe 10 yrs now without moving

Don't stare at that thing. When you tell AI to make Medusa, it makes Medusa.