General Maintenance Tips for the Fiddle & Violin

Video Transcript

Hi! I’m David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I’m going to talk about the daily cleaning of the violin. Here we have a violin which has been played a great deal in recent days and has had no cleaning. Playing out playing in different performing situations the violin gets covered with dust, and it’ll be really kind of interesting to do an archeological study of what’s collected on this instrument. But what I’m trying do here is to remove as much of it as possible using just a dry cloth. It makes it, it makes the instrument look somewhat better; and when you remove accumulated rosin and environmental dust and dirt from your fingers from the strings, you actually can improve the sound of the instrument. So what I’m trying do right here is, I’m just using a dry cloth, is get the majority of the accumulated dirt, junk off my strings, and if slide this cloth under the strings and run up and down the fingerboard, now I’m taking up some of the dirt that my fingers left behind on the string. And it just makes sense that string with less dirt is going to vibrate better, and then I’ll go around and get the worst of the dirt, worst of the dust off of the rest of the instrument as well. In a separate segment I’m going to actually talk about cleaners cleaning materials. Now that’s a quick dust removal.

Watch these related videos

• 
  General Maintenance Tips for the Fiddle & Violin

  playlist Views: 1,982

• 
  Cleaning Products for Maintaining a Fiddle & Violin

  playlist Views: 1,972

• 
  Playing Your New Violin Strings

  playlist Views: 2,724

• 
  Cleaning Don'ts for the Fiddle & Violin

  playlist Views: 2,058

• 
  Hear the Sound Of Playing A Tuned Fiddle

  playlist Views: 1,823

• 
  The Differences between the Fiddle & the Violin

  playlist Views: 7,369

Community Members who...

• Favorited this Video
• Rated This Video

Top Tags