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55 50 Ron · Mar 28, 2017

It's a good afternoon and I'm going to play music with friends tonight. Just thought I'd share my group of violins - in various conditions
from old needing repair to new and completely playable. I have 8, 7 in the photos and one is with a granddaughter. I could even sell one or
two, don't you think?

Married2Allis · Mar 28, 2017

Sounds like fun and nice collection. I don't play violin but my daughter does. She has a restored one that was my great grandfather's from Austria about 100 years old. I've long been a fan of Bluegrass and am learning banjo. I've got the 3-finger picking down, just need to find the time to learn songs.

Have a good time tonight.
Bret

Buddy · Mar 28, 2017

Just fiddling around are you ? LOL....

JerryS · Mar 28, 2017

I envy you. First, I wish that I could play violin. Also, it would be nice to have a group of friends who like to get together and play just for the sheer fun of it. I've recently taken up the guitar again after many on and off lapses through the years. I did my first performance before an audience last week.

RBoots · Mar 28, 2017

That's a lot of violins! Is a violin technically the same thing as a fiddle, or is there a difference?

4520BW · Mar 28, 2017

The difference is you don't spill beer on a violin! A violin is fancy and a fiddle is folksy.

PJH · Mar 28, 2017

NICE collection!

There should be a law that everyone would be required to try to play a fiddle. Real fiddlers make it look easy, but it is not easy. I own a fiddle and I get it out of the case once or twice a year just to confirm to myself that I haven't gotten any better at playing it. I had one old dog that would howl along with me, and another dog that would run to the woods.

Have fun tonight - wish I could hear you play.

Steve@Advance · Mar 28, 2017

The difference in a violin and a fiddle...

A violin is a fiddle when it's played properly! LOL

Steve@Advance · Mar 28, 2017

Nice!

Any Youtube videos we can watch?

jeffcat · Mar 28, 2017

I heard the differance between a violin and a fiddle is the price of the ticket.

RBoots · Mar 28, 2017

Thanks guys, yall must be down home boys lol

Goose · Mar 28, 2017

I have a violin that needs a complete restoration. The finger board fell off, the sound post is loose inside, and the entire unit needs to be disassembled and re-glued.

My grandfather gave it to me when I was about 12. He'd originally bought it in St. Louis about a hundred years ago for one of my uncles. Then one day I was hanging around with Grandpa and we came across the violin. He said, "Here. Rudy never showed any interest in it, you may as well have it".

It has a label inside that says, "Antonio Stradivarius facibat anno 1720". It's probably a copy. I'm not na?ve enough to think it's the real thing. Even if it was, by 1720 Stradivarius was past his peak.

I learned to play it somewhat as a kid, but was hampered by my left index finger missing to the second joint as a result of a childhood accident. And I was already missing the finger when Grandpa gave me the violin.

BTW, I've never seen the missing finger as a handicap. I worked in Avionics in the Marine Corps, and sometimes while working on wiring and electronic gear on jet fighter planes I could do things with my left hand that I couldn't do with my right 'cause I didn't have the extra finger in the way.

Janicholson · Mar 28, 2017

Have it looked at at least. There are Luthiers Jim
one real organization.

Goose · Mar 28, 2017

I bought a couple of books on violin restoration. They don't use any modern glues or tools. Everything is from the era.

Guess I should get them out and go through them again. Also, I took it to a local violin shop about 20 years ago and some obnoxious idiot told me it wasn't worth restoring. Maybe if I go back now, there will be different people.

But, it's not about monetary value, I just like to see things fixed like they were originally.

Pappy · Mar 29, 2017

You carry violin in a nice velvet lined case. You carry a fiddle in a gunny sack.

4wdtom · Mar 29, 2017

Are those violins or fiddles?

Davidj · Mar 29, 2017

Here are a couple of photos of myself and some of my students. One is out at a performance, the other is at a practice. One of the kids had a birthday that day. I'm the old, rotund guy....... I have about 40 kids that I teach fiddle and piano to. Mostly Scottish and Irish stuff. We have a pile of fun. I've heard the difference between a violin and a fiddle is a bottle of whiskey.....

Bryan inIowa · Mar 29, 2017

Trying to teach myself Banjo also . Old fat fingers dont bend so good. I try to get 30 minutes in everyday after I close shop. wife n kids told me to keep that damn Banjo at the shop. lol Lot of good videos on Youtube on how to play banjo

1970-1655 · Mar 29, 2017

I have a friend in Ohio that repairs and restores violins and base. His shop always has a few in-process as well as some coming and some going. I found a way to get under his skin is ask him about a "fiddle" he is working on.

55 50 Ron · Mar 29, 2017

Thanks for the comments. No You Tube videos out. Not much difference between violin and fiddle. Mostly in type of music played. Physically pretty much the same.

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