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Rosin Your Bow: Learn how rosin works and how to apply it
Jim Burke
All Things Strings: Strings buyer's guide of contemporary violin and bow pricing.
Strings Magazine
Buyers Guide: Guidelines on what to look for when buying an instrument or accesories by Fritz Reuter and Sons, Inc.
Fritz Reuter and Sons
Choosing a Violin Bow: What fiddlers should know about bow qualities.
Elan Chalford
Fetching the Stick: The delicate art of commissioning a bow – and one or two tips on how to do it by David Templeton.
David Templeton
Guide to Student Violins: The answer to 'What sort of bow should I be looking for?'
Derek Roberts Violins
The Parts Of The Bow: Learn the parts of the fiddle bow
Jim Burke
About Fiddle Hardware: Fiddle hardware and fitting according to size or age.
Marc Capuano
All Things Strings: Strings buyer's guide of contemporary violin and bow pricing.
Strings Magazine
Auditioning Instruments and Bows: Eleven tips for a player or parent to buy a better violin.
Claire Givens Violins
Buyers Guide: Guidelines on what to look for when buying an instrument by Fritz Reuter and Sons, Inc.
Fritz Reuter and Son
Buying a Fiddle: A few ideas about buying a fiddle.
Elan Chalford
Guide to Student Violins: Choosing the right violin for a student, advice to help you make the right choice.
Derek Roberts Violins
How To Buy A Violin: Complete our 60 second survey and we will find you an instrument that matches your needs!
Childrens Music Workshop
How to Buy A Violin: The Violin Case provides a look at how to go about buying a violin.
Julie Tebbs
How to Select a Fiddle: Some questions you need to take into consideration.
Chris Talley Armstrong
Michael Hopkins String Pedagogy Notebook: History, care, anatomy and technique.
Michael Hopkins
Selecting Instruments, Bows and Accessories: An attempt to narrow the field down to just one or two.
Robert Cauer Violins
That First Violin: Tips on getting what you want, without hassles.
Heather K. Scott
Fiddle and Violin Practice Techniques: Very helpful practice tips when learning new tunes.
Elan Chalford
Fiddle Tips: Why don't violinists sound like fiddlers?
Elan Chalford
Get A Grip On Your Fiddle Bow: Learn how and where to grip your fiddle bow
Jim Burke
Getting the Fiddler's Accent: Answers to: “How can I get a fiddly sound?” “What's the difference between classical and fiddle?”
Beverley Conrad
Mel Bay's Fiddle Session: Leverage and Flexibility: The Keys to Good Bowing
Paul Anastasio
Mel Bay's Fiddle Session: Practice Ethics by Betse Ellis.
Betse Ellis
Pat Cloud's Advice: *Practice* is a totally different realm than *playing*
Pat Cloud
Playing the Fiddle: Roy Johnstone's continuing article on playing techniques.
Roy Johnstone
Practice Advice: Practice is a subject which should be covered in every instruction book
David Crisler
Practice Tips for Acoustic Musicians: Five daily procedures to follow.
Mickey Cochran
Tips for Improvisers: Developing tools for improvisation-American Roots Music and Jazz
John McGann
Violin Practice Exercises: Belknap Violin Practicing System with Tip of the Day.
The Violin Site
Fiddle Tablature: Traditionally, the Fiddle does not use tablature; however, there is a way to incorporate tablature in Fiddle music.
Jay Buckey
How To Read Tablature: Tablature includes one line for each string and numbers that indicate which fret to play.
16Tracks
Learn to Play Fiddle: Reading tablatures and associating finger placement.
Marc Capuano
Learn to Use Fiddle Tablature: Learn How to Play the Fiddle --without Reading Music.
Elan Chalford
Learning the Violin Fingerboard: How to read standard notation on the violin.
Folk of the Wood
Notes on Reading Tablature: Reading and notation techniques and their beginnings.
Consult-Eco
Reading Tabs: An introduction to tablature for 6 and 4 strings.
Bass Masta
Tablature Basics: How to Read & Understand Tablature
Mickey Cochran
Violin Tabs: Violin tabs allow musicians to improvize music while staying within the chord structure of a song.
The Violin Site
How To Tune A Fiddle: David Kaynor online video series on tuning.
David Kaynor
How To Tune a Fiddle: Video lesson series for tuning a fiddle.
David Kaynor
How to tune a hardanger fiddle: Good general tuning advice as well as hardanger fiddles.
Inna Larsen
How to Tune a Violin: Tools and instructions for tuning.
Music Basics
How to Tune A Violin: Chronological steps, including the necessary pitches and intervals.
Childrens Music Workshop
Learn How to Play Fiddle: Tuning, posture, bowing and reading tablature.
Elan Chalford
Online Violin Tuner: Use this free online violin tuner to tune up your violin.
Get-Tuned.com
Pedagogy Notebook: Music notation and sound for the violin.
Michael Hopkins
Playing the Violin: Wikipedia article on posture, pitch, tone and tuning.
Wikipedia
Tune a Violin: A basic summary of the standard techniques for tuning a violin
eSSORTMENT
Tune Your Fiddle: Advice on understanding strings and tuning your fiddle.
Fiddle Novice
Tune Your Violin!: Tips on tuning and open string sounds.
Tripod
Tuning: Tuning basics for the violin.
Violin Online
Tuning Peg Solution: Peg Drops! A great solution to slipping wooden tuning pegs.
Janet Davis Music
Tuning the Violin: Video guide to violin tuning.
Sound Junction
Violin Training: Tuning the Fiddle: Part I
Mickey Cochran
Violin Training: Tuning the Fiddle: Part II
Mickey Cochran
Violin Tuning Methods: An easy and quick way for beginners.
Get-Tuned.com
