Buying a violin
Swindling Music Students over instruments?
Deal or no deal, music students swindled Harriet Alexander February 26, 2011 – 3:00AM INSTRUMENT dealers call it their ”dirty little secret”, the pact they have with music teachers who funnel them students – in exchange for a slice of the profit. It is just one of the traps for aspiring virtuosos whose parents have &hellip Continue reading »
Cheap violins – are they worth it?
This great post by Laurie Niles points out the difference between ‘Violin Shaped Objects’ and ‘real violins’ beautifully, complete with pictures. What price (in US dollars) should we be paying for a decent student violin outfit? What should the fingerboard be like? What should the bridge be like? What can I look for in a sound post? &hellip Continue reading »
USE OF THIS SITE
The materials available on this website are designed for teacher, student and personal use only.
You are welcome to add a link back to this site for any material you like, however they must not be sold or re-distributed in any way.
Recent no-spam comments
- Elizabeth Reicher on 3 Ways to Read Music Poster
- Hannah on Four Corner Drill Group Game
- Mary on Barbie.com piano/vocal songs for the girls
- Loretta McCray on Complete Set Violin Flash Cards – Printable
- Sheila on Children’s Choir with violin solo ‘I’m Trying To Be Like Jesus’
Categories
- AMEB (11)
- Beginner Recorder (1)
- Beginner Violin (36)
- Buying a violin (2)
- Choir/Vocal music (6)
- Christmas (6)
- Composing (4)
- Easy Violin (1)
- Halloween (1)
- Handbells (4)
- LDS Primary (14)
- Music Book Recommendation (7)
- Music gadgets (5)
- Music Poster (2)
- Music Seminars (15)
- Nursery (2)
- One handed songs (5)
- Piano games (18)
- Piano sheet music (29)
- Practise/Practice helps (14)
- Scales (4)
- Seventh Day Adventist Hymns (8)
- String Group (23)
- Studio Group Games (13)
- Studio Themes (27)
- Theory (17)
- Violin games (41)
- Violin musings (28)
- Violin sheet music (40)
- Violin technique (7)
- Ward Choir (4)
- Ward Music Chairman (4)
-
My most recent posts
Blogroll
- All Piano
- Blitz Books
- Bow Hold Buddies
- Compose Create
- DENLEY MUSIC PRIMARY BLOG
- Elissa Milne
- Foxx Piano Studio 'Piano is Fun'
- Free Piano Sheet Music
- Heidi's Piano Notes
- Jen's Piano Studio
- Layton Music
- Lds sacred songs
- Music for Tots
- Music Matters Blog
- Music Theory Blog
- Notable Music Studio
- Notekids
- Pianimation – Jen's new website
- Sing A New Song
- Susan Paradis
- Teach Suzuki
- The Piano Studio
- violinist.com
- violinonline.com
Admin