General Tips for Changing Violin Strings

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Hi I'm David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I'm going to talk about changing violin strings. There are some general do's and don'ts about changing strings. One of the do's is to change one string at a time and have all the others up to tension or close to up to tension. The rationale for that is that maintaining a modicum of down pressure on the top will increase the likelihood that the sound post will remain in place and not fall over. If a sound post falls over it has to be put back up, and that is something which many of us fiddlers have learned to do ourselves in our own imperfect ways; but it's inconvenient, time consuming, hard to do right, and for many people would be best left to a violin technician. But the basic rule of thumb about this is that if you change one string at a time, the other three strings maintain sufficient down pressure that the danger of the sound post falling over is minimized. A second benefit is it keeps the bridge in its current location, which hopefully is a good location for maximizing sound output. Changing strings, one generally ought to have something like a pair of needle nose pliers, and one should also have a soft lead pencil. And I will be demonstrating that shortly. Another thing one should have is a full set of strings, and personally I would never leave home without at least one full set of fresh strings available. So that is part one of changing strings.

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