Marketing Fiddle Music

Marketing fiddle music is a challenge anywhere. In some areas it might be especially difficult because it’s a genre that is not standardized or commercialized.

Sarah Whitney, violinist with her violin — Sarah Whitney, violinist

Mike Block String Camp faculty member Sarah Whitney offered a workshop on marketing your music. She is a very able violinist in the Sybarite5 ensemble. The presentation she gave on marketing fiddle music distilled what she’s learned … Read more

Fiddlers Read Music Notation

Fiddlers Read Music Notation and Fiddle Tab

Do all fiddlers read music notation? No. Do all violinists read fiddle tab? No. Why not? Many fiddlers are on the way to reading music notation. But, violinists, the ones I’ve met, profess distain for fiddle tab. Maybe it’s ego, maybe it’s just laziness. They don’t want to learn it. Even when I tell them a six year … Read more

Royce Burt Fiddle Tone Improver

How Royce Burt Enhances an Old Fiddle

To understand what Royce Burt does and how it makes average student violins sound like professional instruments, you must learn about graduation. The top and back plates of the violin have a contoured change in thickness. This change is called the graduation. Royce Burt regraduates run-of-the-mill

instruments to make them sound as good as the best fiddles.

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Fiddlers Teaching Fiddle
Intermediate Fiddlers Can Teach Beginning Fiddle From time to time I will encouraged a student to teach beginning fiddle. They may be intermediate. They know enough to teach a beginner. The most important addition to what they already know is the order in which to teach the skills required. Recently one of the fiddlers in […]
The Best Fiddle Hold for Endurance
The Fiddle Hold That Let’s You Play On the left the Mach 1, middle the Kun Voce, right a pad with brand unknown You may have already seen articles online about how to hold the fiddle. Some seem very strict. The goal is to have a position with your fiddle hold that permits flexibility and […]
Do Fiddlers Need Organization?
Fiddlers can use these rules, too. Rules are a form of organization. This is about how I organize my fiddling life. I just began a new SkillShare program on organization. I believe it will encompass more than one course and ask for something to be posted once or twice during the time of the workshop. […]