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I have a violin that has the sweetest sound ever! It's silky, warm, sublime, it effortlessly whispers and talks calmly and composed. But when you try to push it to shout a bit, it doesn't. Basically, it's really easy to play pianissimo, and it's completely at home up to mezzo-forte. But you don't get the satisfaction of a stronger, louder sound on forte or above. The soundpost was moved all over the place in it before, but anywhere out of the 'default position' hasn't benefited the volume. I have tried Zyex, Tonicas, Vision Solo Titanium and Dominants on it with different results but also none that benefits volume satisfactorily. Now that I can make my own soundposts I was thinking perhaps experimenting with a different one? Perhaps longer? Perhaps shorter? Maybe I'll make one out of Pernambuco and see what happens! I also considered maybe the bridge? It's kinda chunky. And I should learn to cut those too sooner or later! But before I go about that, I was wondering if the wonderful wise folks here would have some suggestions and/or insight on how to improve a good but quiet instrument.
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I'm wondering how the power behind a sound and the perceived loudness differ, or if they differ?? Somehow it seems like there is some distinction and qualitative difference between a wimpy quiet sound, and a quiet seeming tone with power behind it. But I'm unclear on how this can be, or if it can be in a quantitative sense. And how does carrying strength of a tone relate to this. It seems as if two tones can have a comparable sense of loudness, but one can have greater power behind it and carry better?? Same question in different guise: If I play back the same recording of a favorite string quartet on two very different quality stereo systems, one very good quality and high power, the other less on both counts, but I play back on both at seemingly equal loudness levels, how will the playback sounds actually differ? Would love to understand this better.
