First time players will achieve the best results by bringing the violin to a music teacher to assist with the initial assembly. Please read through the manual below to familiarize yourself with your new instrument. If damaged goods are found, the wrong item was received, an exchange or refund in required, please email your seller immediately. Getting Started You must assemble and tune your new violin prior to playing.
. PEGS: The pegs can be shrink or expand due to the temperature and humidity changes. When the peg shrink, it will not fit the peg hole as well as they were originally made. It will leave a little gap between the peg and peg hole. This is why the strings slip. Simply apply the rosin powder or peg drop oil (which you can get from the retail store) on the pegs and peg hole. This will fill the little gap in between and increase the friction. 4.
If the bridge is too tight and will not budge, you can loosen one or two strings to provide more give. Do not loosen all of the strings as that will cause the bridge to fall over! Continue making very slight and small adjustments to the bridge until it is back in line. Violin Bridge Replacement Every violin player faces the task of changing the bridge. With very few detachable pieces on a violin, changing the bridge is one of the most essential tasks for a violin player to know.
Step 3 Remove the bridge gently from the violin. Step 4 Mark the New bridge: Use a pencil or other marking tool to add 4 light marks where the 4 strings sit on the top of the new bridge. • The width should be wide enough so that when you are playing on only one string the bow won't produce noise from adjacent strings. • The width should also be narrow enough so that, when you are playing on two strings at the same time, you can use one finger to press on both these two strings without much difficulty.
Step 6 Hold the bridge in one hand and tighten the strings in the reverse order you loosened them. That is, tighten the A-string and D-string first, and then, tighten the E-string and G-string. Tighten until each string matches its rough standard pitch (violin tuner suggested). • Continue to adjust the bridge to keep it perpendicular to the violin body every time you tighten the string so it is not leaning too far away from the f-holes.
How to Tune Your Violin How to Tune a Violin with a Tuner 1. Switch the tuner ON. 2. Pluck the violin’s G string. 3. Watch the gauge on the tuner, where you see a little needle moving around. The needle registers the pitch and tells you if your note is too low or too high. The tuner may also have a green light, to tell you when you’re on the best pitch. 4. Make the adjustments to the violin string using the fine tuners (tighten if the note is too low, or loosen if it’s too high). 5. Pluck the string again.
If you can’t get the string perfectly in tune, that’s okay. Just get it as close as you can. For the rest of the pegs, you’ll use the same process, except when you go to tune the G and the D strings you’ll switch hands and use your left hand to turn and your right hand to pluck and support. Note: If you play a note that sounds too high, carefully bring your finger closer to the violin scroll until you hear the right note.
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