The channel for enthusiastic string players... Do you want to get the best out of your violin, viola, cello or double bass? Expert violin maker and restorer Olaf Grawert will show you how your instrument works and how you can get it playing at its best.
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Bullet proof code is a zinger
I've just bought a Musafia case that was originally made for and owned by Joshua Bell for the Gibson ex-Hubermam Strad, that's the closest I'll get. The case is an early 100th birthday present for my 1925 Gustave Villaume violin.
Wonderful!
I'm 69 years old, they tell me, and I'm having the most wonderful time 7 days after the purchous of a new violin. Your instructional videos have been of a tremendous help setting up and playing it. I watched so many teachers on Utube. What seems to really help is to listen to what you really like, played well, and just go for it. Make the sounds you like and keep putting them togather. You will have a wonderful and fulfilling time as you learn more each day. It will be a long journey, but you will be so enthusiastic at hearing yourself play something that sounds good. Yea, yea, yea,,,it will take several years to learn to play. That's bull unless you have aspirations of greatness, and the time, but I'm having a wonderful time just playing it for my own satisfaction. Just go for it! Great will come with dedication and persistence, but pure fun will come quickly if you just play. And play what you want. Thank you for all of your great instruction and advice.
Cotton absorbs moisture
Should loosen the bow for storage
What is your recommendation for rosin for your bow for best sound
I like Melos and Leatherwood Eco... Personal choice though. There are lots of good rosins out there
You could do several videos on cleaning and people will still ask what way can I best care for my instrument
Keep a good job so I can send it to you
The care you take on the fine details is quite stunning and impressive.
I didn't realise your channel went back this far! The algorithm uncovers some old gems occasionally!
I really enjoy your videos you just put all the peace’s back together again amazing
How much for master set up on violin
Incorrect about the CA. Kodak invented it for splicing negatives. I wonder why everybody thinks it was invented for wounds? As a scale r/c scratch builder of almost 40 years i can tell u that yes CA works good to stop stuck pig style bleed out but it will ALWAYS fester and always require that u open it back up so it can heal. Ive CA'd over 40 wounds 😂 p.s. its the best when u cut your lips licking a knife😅😭😂
279 bow 600 violin
Best bow rosin and best strings 4/4
The first name I ever heard of a violin was a Stretta various and I knew they were worth a lot of money
What makes Stradivarius so special and so expensive
Hocus Pocus by Focus!
My string broke
i just had a random video Idea I thought I might share! What if you collabed with Twoset again, slightly longer format videos where you traded lessons? You could take a playing lesson with twoset and twoset could take a violin making workshop with you! I can't speak for the rest of the audience but I know I would be extremely interested in watching long format for both of these videos as I could learn some things about both playing and making/repairing violins. I know personally I could watch at least an hour long video of both of these :)
You are right Olaf. I purchased a violin online, beautiful violin, but it was with no return deal. I found out that the the A and the D strings cannot be tuned to the right tone, got stuck with it. I took it to a shop and after months it came back the way it was and as compensation I have received the violin of the music teacher with a silencer on it. That violin sounds as bad. What can be wrong with these strings it puzzles me, I tried to find an answer in the internet, but to no avail. If you read my comments by any chance, throw a few lines to tell me your opinion on the strings. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, most appreciated. Your videos are also comforting and fun to watch.
Thank you for sharing your story and for your kind message. It's difficult to say what the problem is without seeing your instrument. I can usually work it out when I see it... Hopefully you can keep playing for now and maybe sometime in the future find a good violin 🎻
Great videos and your work of art, thank you for sharing.
Is it normal that I find I need fingerboard planing every year?
It should be guards
I would be worried about someone taking it
Cold low humidity Canada Michigan wiinter get to 15 percent humidity
CMT oil and butter
You can tune the wood can you
Commission get corrupt sometimes
You just hade to put music over my favorite part (the opening of the violin)
Amazing brilliant work attending to detail love it
Thank you Olaf . I think that your explanation of how a sound post works may have something to do with violin tone because as you say the sound post amoung many other things links the belly with the back of the instrument, but this doesn't explain why it it works . Savart did some well documented experiments with violin sound posts one of which involved the sound post passing through a hole in the back so the sound post didn't contact the back at all but was held in place by a structure secured to the sides of the violin . He found in this experiment that the sound post performed normally . If one views the sound post and bass bar from a cross section of a violin taken at 90° to your longitudinal Cross section and consider what effect the strings have on the bridge when they vibrate you can work out quite easily how a sound post works turning the bridge into a lever with its fulcrum on the treble foot and its bass foot above the bass bar thus regulating the very short vibrations of the higher pitches against the longer vibrations of the lower pitches bringing the sound post , bridge and bass bar together into one regulatory mechanism .
What a waste of time I thought he was going to do some work on it that would have been a real challenge what a waste of time
Exactly... It would have been a total waste of time to do any work on it... These instruments are really terrible 😞
I get so angry at those videos that say everything you need to build a violin at home.
may I ask can the glue holds a broken string together, can I glue it on a broken string together ?
3:05 - 3:17 I've seen that before, it was not pretty. The shop owner still bent over backwards though but he tried his best to explain what was going on.
I worked at a luthier's and we'd see this often. Parent would come in and say the exact same thing and ask what could have caused it. We'd tell them something was more than likely dropped on it or something with substantial weight was either put down upon or hit the violin. 9 times out of 10 the parent would answer 'No, that's impossible, my child would never do that/allow that to happen.' It was WILD seeing the hoops they'd jump through to deny that their child could damage an instrument. Does one just open a cabinet door and see a broken dish?? The parents who acknowledged it were some of the best customers we had, because they understood the luthier had a skill set with experience that they didn't possess.
Hey olaf i was wondering, i have the money to buy either the garibaldi or the aluna, what is the differences between them and would it be worth getting the aluna and buying a better bow or keeping my 50$ bow and buying the garibaldi?? Thanks
Good advice Olaf. Informative and interesting. Thank you. 👍
Your workshop is such a ghibli vibe i love it
Olaf is the best :) have a good day Olaf love your videos :)
Thank you ❤✨🎻
Most strats are 400 year old violins.
Do you think a teacher is necessary to learn violin? Or could you just learn by yourself?
2:14 - 2:23 lolololol I used to work at a luthier's, and saw the names of strings drawn onto the bridge as well. That is exactly what I felt like doing.
My father makes amazing Violins, a notable Irish player offered him thousands for the 2nd one he built 20 years ago and he didn't want to sell it. He convinces himself he's not good enough. So basically know one really knows of his work. He also made a green varnish that has amazing vivid colour whilst still being thin enough not to effect the sound. Only a handfull of people have seen this to. It's a damn shame.
If you want a bow for a beginner I got one called a 3/4 Theodore Ebony bow for under £17 .and it plays beautifully. From the balance point to the tip you can play Sautille ,Spicatto ,Stacatto .It`s effortless and instinctive to control .Made of wood . Looks like pernambuco .I wish violins were so good from brand new .
I am an adult beginner... I looked for my own violin after a while... I fell inlove with one and bought it. My original teacher didn't like it and guilt tripped me all the time, said she could get me better for less...It would really not surprise me if she would take a bit of profit for herself tbh, it came across as such to me. She also wanted to know every detail of it. And then she just said negative things about it -> the guilt tripping... Found a more fitting teacher after a short break and he had no knowledge about the violin. First thing he said when we started lessons is that he REALLY likes the sound of it and that I have a gem and a keeper for a violin! He played it after I asked him and it was really beautiful to hear what it sounds like.. (my playing isn't that good yet). OG teacher didn't really want to play mine when I had it to try it out, prior to buying. She played on it after begging but very very shortly.
Great to hear the that you stuck though it... I know of a lot of students that bowed to the pressure and ended up with second rate instruments
my father told me about my grandfathers old violin and it says Stradivarius and I never knew about them until recently and it says it was made 1694 and I don’t know what to do with it because it is very old and I’m not sure if it’s real. Would you know what to do?
I think he told me my grandpa bought it off someone in 1970s? In Mexico
I really don’t know how to tell it’s real or not. If you know anything pls let me know
I have a Ernst Heinrich Roth violin 1953