Strad O Various Jr.

bookeeping of a violin business is simple enough you don't need a computer program, My accountant recommended the Dome monthly bookeeping record, it gives you all the categories you are going to need with your accountant at the end of the year, if you use the record properly your accountant should be able to e file your taxes in about 20 minutes, which costs me about $125, you keep all your expenses on one side, put the number relevant to each expense, then add up all the expenses by category with the number codes, for instance accounting, telephone, utilities, supplies,advertising etc, this is done in the number coded columns at the right side of the page, I do 6 months at a time because my buisiness is sort of slow, but if you're busy you use one of the 12 monthly pages for each month

Almost all the modern Chinese "pernambuco" bows are not pernambuco

probably a neck graft if its real

Why not compare to antique violins that are guaranteed to use European wood?

the violin has a through neck, this isn't seen hardly at all after 1870

seller does not accept returns, very bad idea to purchase, plus story is these weren't actually made by Aschauer but by his students in most cases

Carbon bows sound like crap compared to decent pernambuco, on that many of us can agree, on playability, people swear by them though

The Chinese bows are not really pernambuco, which is illegal, but the wood they use is quite strong and can make a decent student bow, also classic or antique nickel mount pernambuco or brasilwood bow can be had in the same price range and if you have many to chose from you can find good ones

Is the violin out of tune, and that reverb is coming from the room, not the violin

with a badly cracked neck heel, unrepaired

Was the luthier in Dundee Graham Welsh?? Good friend of mine.

The only thing that looks french about this violin is the label

The people that recommended geared pegs are not baroque specialists, you don't need fine tuners or geared pegs with plain gut as the strings stretch more than modern strings and you have the effect of geared pegs but with plain wooden pegs and no fine tuners.

You don't use geared pegs for gut strings, you don't need fine tuners with them

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