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How to choose violin strings

It is a little known fact that to really have a great sounding violin, strings choice is essential. Seasoned professionals and experienced amateurs alike, violinists in the know can wield a wide variety of sounds from their instrument from something as small (and essential as we'll find) as careful string selection. In this article we'll delve into string selection and help you find out whats best for your desired tone.

You should consider a few types of strings when ordering. Here they are, along with some characteristics of each.

Gut strings - These are strings that the cores are actually made out of guts of animals. The initial type of string offered, these are normally utilized by period violinists and those focusing on early music. One of the most played gut strings around without doubt is called the pirastro eudoxa. It's popular for a reason folks, and we highly recommend this fine specimen of a gut string.

Synthetic Strings - Synthetic cores are known for being great at resonance and have a very long lifespan. An old standby favorite and likely the most played of this type are thomastik dominant strings, or the similarly popular pirastro evah pirazzi strings Both Thomastik and Pirastro are very visible in the violin world and have built up great reputations.

Steel core strings - These strings have the reputation of being strings for students. This is somewhat of an unfortunately and unkind, not to mention incorrect assumption as many skilled violin players prefer steel core, and probably as many as prefer synthetic or gut. The standard in steel core strings would have to be the super sensitive red label strings. These have been used by student violinists for ages and are popular amongst teachers for a reason.

It is important to identify what value the retailer is bringing to the transaction when selecting who to purchase your strings from. As violin strings are likely to be viewed a commodity by retailers, it's essential to look at how they enhaance the deal for you. Look to a violin forum with other players and see what stores they routinely buy from and can recommend to you.

To end, go out and talk to other people in the violin community and see what they recommend and can say about the individual string tonal qualities and be aware of these at your next purchase.

About the Author

A professional concert violinist for 12 years, Thomas Enhasens is a self proclaimed novice in violin playing but an expert in bad sounding violins.

Red Violin?

Ok so I get that the whole movie revolved around this violin that the old french man made after his wife died, but why was everyone cursed? I did miss some parts of the movie so I may have misunderstood... but?

The Red Violin is a wonderful film. François Girard is a quality director and it shows in this film. The reason that everyone who came in contact with the violin was cursed, was that the original creator of the violin varnished it in a mixture of substances that included his wife's blood. If you remember all the times that the wife was speaking with the fortune teller, the old woman told the wife that she was cursed and that everyone in her life would be cursed as well.... so she became part of the violin with her blood, and therefore cursed everyone who owned it. You should watch the film again without missing any scenes, its definitely worth it.

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The Red Violin $58.94 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a violin and its many owners. The film was an international coproduction between companies in Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom. The film tells the story of a perfect violin known as the Red Violin for its rich red colour. At the films beginning, the violin is being auctioned in Canada. As the bidding starts, the violins history is revealed, showing that the violin has been in existence for over 300 years, having been made in 1681. Its history is told in five stories set in different locations around the worldCremona, Vienna, Oxford, Shanghai, and Montreal. These stories are told in chronological order except for the Cremona and Montreal stories, which are intersected into the others with each change of location and as the tarot reading and the auction develop. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2010/09/11 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.15 inches

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Playing The Violin Has Given Me Repetitive Strain Injury?

Question: 

I'm violinist and get tremendous pains in my wrist and arms. At night, these sometimes run through my arm like an electric current. Painkilllers don't help. I sometimes bandage my arm, which does give some relief from the pain. Can you help?

Answer:

You are suffering from what is commonly called repetitive strain injury (RSl). When you play, you hold the bow with your fingers and move the arm repeatedly. These repetitive movements use one group of muscles over and over again. The muscles get strained and then injured because they rarely get a chance to recover properly. Musicians are not the only ones affected. There are many cases of this problem occurring in sportsmen (RSl was often referred to as tennis elbow), writers, typists and other manual workers such as decorators. RSI is also a major problem in offices where computers are used. Many employees have sued their companies for compensation for work-related injury.

If you cause muscles to contract repeatedly, they will do so rhythmically until they reach a point of extreme fatigue. Then they have to rest in order to replenish their energy before starting to work - that is, to contract - again. In order to work, muscles need oxygen, which burns the glucose in the muscles, producing the waste products carbon dioxide and water. In your case, your work demands that they contract all the time with no time to rest and replenish. That means the demand for oxygen is continuous and excessive. The result is that some glucose molecules are only partially burnt off and this leads to the formation of the waste product lactic acid. It is the lactic acid that causes cramps and pain in the muscles.

The extremities of the muscles form cordlike tendons that attach the muscles to the bones. The tendons are usually white in colour because the blood supply to them is poor. (Muscles with an abundance of blood are red.) When muscles contract repeatedly with no recovery time, the tendons get traumatized and inflamed, a condition called tendinitis. While overworked muscles can recover well with rest massage and sleep, overworked tendons often don't recover fully because of their poor blood supply, so they become hard and stringy.

Your night-time problems occur because the muscles relax at night, when muscles are taut they keep tendons stretched. At night, when the muscles relax during sleep, the tendons are loosened. The body then sends blood to rectify the damage done to them by overwork. The tendons swell and pulsate as wave after wave of blood surges to them, which explains the throbbing pain. The pain may also travel down the length of the tendons, causing the sensation of an electrical impulse or current.

My advice is as follows
* Have a break from repetitive work every hour. Get up and walk about repeatedly squeeze and release the hands, wrists and arms for two to five minutes. This stimulates the flow of fresh blood to the area so that lactic acid is removed.
* At the end of the day, massage the arm with Dr Ali's Joint Oil or Weleda Massage Balm with Arnica starting from the shoulder and going down to the hand. Use your thumb to locate the sore tendons that run along the arm and massage these downwards. Using the ball of the opposite hand, briskly rub the sore area up and down so that you cause friction, which warms up the tissue. This is extremely healing.
* Take the Indian herb Haldi capsules - one twice daily for two months - which helps reduce inflammation.
* If you use a VDU, make certain that the mouse is ergonomically designed so that you do not clamp your hand around it like a claw. Or use a computer with a tracker-ball mouse, integrated into the keyboard.
* Ensure, too, that your chair is well designed and is at a height relative to the desk which leaves your fore arms parallel to the desk top and the elbow joint forming a right angle.
* Your screen should be directly ahead of you, ie, not at an angle.
* Acupunture and/or physiotherapy may help.

About the Author

I have obtained MD in General Medicine with Honours in 1980 and joined The Central Institute of Advanced Medical Studies in Moscow for post graduation in Acupuncture. I have completed diploma courses in Acupuncture, Anesthesia, Iridology, Hypnotherapy and Clinical Fasting. Practicing as Integrated Medicine expert.

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