matesic
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It seems unlikely but I wonder if the old coffin-style cases had a bow clasp that allowed the stick to rattle against the violin just here?
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Someone who commonly plays in very high positions with jagged fingernails? Here it seem to have started on the bass side too. I've never seen a fully convincing explanation.
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Destroying musical instruments as an "artistic" gesture is old hat. The first time I saw a piano smashed with a sledge hammer I was shocked. Then the boy scout troop I belonged to decided it was the only way to dispose of the hulk in the hut that nobody played.
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It's also rather easier to disagree with the result. Say rather the "Miss World" of violin-making?
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All publicity is...what?
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I've seen violins with ash burns on the front. Didn't notice any match scratches on the back.
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I once had on trial a violin whose (I thought) excessive resonance bothered me. After playing a D on the A string the ringing of the D string would sometimes overhang whatever notes came next. It was probably undetectable at a distance but little things like that...
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But even the ugliest duckling can grow up to be a bird of paradise? TBPH, in the present instance I don't think the chances of that are better than one in loads. (edit "and loads").
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Exactly that. No bridge of mine has ever broken or bent. Wiggling in tiny steps could also allow greater opportunity for the tension on either side to equalize.
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Have I been doing it all wrong? My understanding is that the bridge should lean fractionally back from the FB. When I find that it's straightened or started to lean forward I don't slide but wiggle it to the original angle. Takes less than 10 sec. The afterlength is as it was and I never noticed any change of tone.
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Mine had two labels and I did manage to get a chin rest to hang on. It played OK but not well enough to be a keeper so I sold it for slightly fewer beans than it cost.
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My word yes! I thought it was just a fragment of glue. So the Mittenwald invasion made it to the north of Scotland by about 1840?
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The wide F-holes are slightly similar to those of my Harris violin dated 1809 (pic below). John Boyd doesn't get a mention in Honeyman's Scottish Violin Makers Past and Present, in spite of the fact that they were both based in Dundee! The only reference I can find to him is from Ben Hebbert blog, as the maker of two cellos. Do the stubby corners look a bit like John Blair's illustrated in The British Violin? I love these odd maybe-British instruments with a bit of a story attached. And as a player it's better than I was expecting
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Pictures taken today I gather a John Boyd was active in Dundee in the 1840's. Maybe "Repaired by" refers to the neck graft; he doesn't claim to be the maker but I guess Scottish is starting to look probable. A new set of strings and it's already up and running nicely.
