This course is for everyone who has a violin and wants to know more about how to maintain it. It is particularly useful for beginner students, and parents who have just bought a violin for their child.
Some things will be useful when you first get your new violin and bow out of its case, such as:
- Tuning – using the pegs and fine tuners
- Looking after the bow, including
- getting the right tension
- applying rosin
- loosening the bow after playing
- Shoulder rests and how to fit them
Other things might come in more handy later, such as how to change violin strings.
You can view the first part of the course for free.
About your teacher
Stuart MacQuarrie is an experienced teacher and performer, covering quite a few instruments, including bass guitar, ukulele, but his main thing is folk fiddle.
As a performer he formed a folk duo in 2014 alongside guitarist Jamie Toms – called “MacQuarrie and Toms”. Since then they have played throughout the UK and Europe. In 2018 the duo were featured artists at Festival Interceltique de Lorient, the same year that they also supported Fairport Convention as part of their 50th anniversary tour. You can see part of their set below.
Since their formation the duo have released 2 EPs, both of which have featured on BBC Introducing and in 2017 they won the International Pan Celtic Instrumental Duo competition in Ireland.
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