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I’m a professional violinist & have been playing for over 20 years, but am recently beginning teaching (most of my work is performance)
My student has a decent instrument, but during her lesson it was wildly out of tune due to massive humidity change in our area and the pegs were all stuck. I had to ask her dad to turn the pegs because they were so poorly fitted. It was awful!
After 30 minutes of trying, the instrument would not stay in tune and I had a feeling that even if I tried to have it in some sort of decent tuning, a string would break (the instrument has cheap Chinese strings on it)
I’ve informed her parents that the instrument needs to be taken to a local violin shop, but what do you do during a lesson when a student’s instrument just won’t stay in tune? She’s only been playing for 6 months
I have two instruments- my acoustic (& expensive) violin and my electric
I’ve only recently gotten into teaching. I mostly do performing
Good idea about rhythm work! I guess in my frustration I didn’t think about that haha
Handing her my violin is not a good idea. She still needs tapes to figure out where her fingers are going. Plus, she’s a kid. Handing my expensive instrument to a kid is not a good idea. I don’t even like other professional violinists touching my instrument haha
I’ll check out the Flashnote Derby app! Thank you!
99% of my outdoor gigs I use my electric (which I mostly play on.) For the rare moment when I’m outside and use my acoustic, it’s totally fine.
I did have a cheap Shar violin as a “prop” violin but gave it away to a friend who needed some string supplies for their classroom during the pandemic. I figured it would be better used in that capacity than sitting around collecting dust
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If it wasn’t my expensive instrument (and the fact that she needs tapes at the point where she’s playing), I would’ve totally let her use my instrument.
But I was also hella weirded out because the violin was from a decent name shop in our area. Like- whoever said, “okay, this instrument is good to go!” clearly does a poor job. I wouldn’t put it in the VSO category, but it sure was acting like one!