violins and age

[murray seminuk]

At 10:38 PM 12/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Don,
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>Since you have experience with violins as well as pianos, maybe you could
>advise me on what to do with the pegs on my viola.
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>Now that the heat is on and everything is dried out I'm having a lot of
>trouble tuning the instrument - have to really twist those pegs in and even
>then they are likely to slip.
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>I'd know what to do if this were a piano.......I hope the remedy is not
>going to be TPT, "re-pegging" or something like that.  Maybe rosin?  CA glue
>(forget I said that).. Help.
>
>Rob Stuart-Vail
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don <drose@dlcwest.com>
>To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 2:33 PM
>Subject: violins and age
>
>
>>At 10:22 PM 12/10/97 -0800, you wrote:
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>>>I hear the same things about violins. Except with violins we get even
>>sillier. We seem to be of the opinion that they get
>>>better with age. Who knows?
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>>It has been thought for many years that a violin *plays* in after about ten
>>years of being *played* 3 to 6 hours per day. I do know that my violin
>which
>>is rarely played now does not sound as well *even* when played by another
>>violinist as it once did.
>>
>> Can anyone out there prove that? Talk about sentiment overpowering reason!
>>Antonio Stradivari (or
>>>Stradivarius) died in 1737. Who of us was there to judge what any of his
>>instruments sounded like when he finished them?
>>
>>They most certainly do *not* sound the same. First the *neck* is longer
>>today, and both the bass bar and sound post will have been changed. There
>is
>>only *one* Strad in original condition...and it is *not* played.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>>"Tuner for the Centre of the Arts"
>>drose@dlcwest.com
>>3004 Grant Rd.
>>REGINA, SK
>>S4S 5G7
>>306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
>>
>>
>
>Rob

You can loosen the tuning peg enough to be able to pull it out slightly and
apply some white blackboard chalk on the peg.The chalk is gritty enough to
create more friction to hold.If that does not work it is necessary to remove
the peg and have it replaced and refitted.A proper reamer and peg shaper
shoud be used otherwise you can really ruin the existing hole in the head.
If the violin is of any value be careful with it.If you need any more help
please contact me.

Murray
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