Installing a New G Violin String

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Hi I'm David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I'm talking about changing strings on a violin. I hook the ball end—most modern strings have a little metal; it is actually more properly a cylinder—but the string wraps around it, the end of the string wraps around. Now fit that into the claw of the fine tuner. The wrapping on the end of the string is thick enough that not all fine tuners would actually accept, but the one will. Now I generally keep a little tension on just so that it is a little easier for me to keep this string under control. The end of the string goes into the little hole in the peg. And once it is in, I try to have approximately a quarter of a inch, maybe a little bit more, stick out through the peg. Then I tend to take one turn on the thin side of the hole, and then when I cross the string over itself, that tends to lock the string in place. The tension as the string is tightened will tend to hold the end of the string so it won't pull through the hole. Now I'm gradually tightening it up.

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