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Die beiden Geiger... sie verwenden beide keine Schulterstütze. Auch für Profis gibt eine Schulterstütze Sicherheit. Viele moderne und klassische Stücke sind nicht mehr wie Barock-Kompositionen welche ein Spiel ohne Schulterstütze erlaubten. Meine Meinung mit gesundem Menschenverstand.

Get out your backup instrument 😮

You destroyed my $100 dollar violin now you send me one of your expensive ones, "you touche you buy"😠 😆

An absolute great "lecture in locus". Very interesting and I enjoyed your videos. Thanks a lot.

A wonderful story! Thank you!

For what a tube on a thin violin string?

There was something about this video that made me think it was an ai clone of olaf. Was the audio wave truncated or something?

I have a gumtree special that's likely to be a German Amati copy. I managed to send it flying a couple of metres during a rehearsal. The impact didn't sound good. Everyone was probably stumped by my lack of concern. It dislodged the neck which wasn't glued on properly anyway so I had the opportunity to reset the neck and take the wedge out from under the finger board. It's now a much better instrument.

So what level is Fish glue ? Serious question .

Really educational to watch...but oh so painful!😮😅

love the intro olaf!

Oh my... This was painful to watch... 😵 But thank you for the tips! 😁 (I only did a 'bow-throw' a few times, but since one of my two bows is carbon fibre and the other is a sturdy, beginner wooden one, they both survived without damage. 🥳 😆)

Hi Olaf! Great video! I really want to post something similar to what happened in this video, (something that happened during a tutoring session, but actually it was WAY more ridiculous than what happened in this situation!!!). I hope to record it tomorrow and upload it soon! If I have time tonight then I'll do it :) May I tag you Mr Olaf?

We were ferrying over a river crossing when our double base met its demise - we moved too strongly so it toppled over, filled with water and sunk beneath our behinds.

I wonder if you work on tiny 1/8th size violins . Learning a violin is like learning a language. Start at ten and you are already way behind . Tiny violins are the future of music . Working on them is good for your /my skill set development .

I made a skeleton fiddle 9No scroll on this one ) and now I will add 4 single guitar tuners (very light ) instead of pegs.Naughty but a bit of fun . I took off the plastic roller sleeves to save carving the wood too much . When fitting strings normally the ball end needs to be bent with pliers to stop them flicking out of the tailpiece while tuning up . Some tailpieces are not cut well enough to get the strings in the holes .There must be a Huge Playbook to make violins as Difficult as Possible .

As a volunteer middle school flute tutor, I can say the most terrifying sound in the room is an instrument drop. It stops the world every time. In flute land particularly, step one following one is call the technician and book a repair (because it's a given), and step two is check to see how badly the keys have been bent while you're explaining to the technician how it happened. Great advice for all, Olaf! Thank you! I'll be sharing this with the new kids in August.

I remember years ago I had my German (plywood) cello in the loungeroom on its side, as you do, & the children chasing each other around the house & then falling on top of it. It being ply meant the body was 'tough' enough, 😉 but the neck was loosened as well as cracking the (ply) back button, plus the three original pegs broke (the G peg was a replacement & obviously normally hard ebony). The kids were devastated when I told them I'd have to use their pocket to pay for it. 😊 Thankfully I could repair it then too though. During an orchestral rehearsal (a couple of decades ago) one violinist in the 2nds front desk, put her bow down on the floor & then the conductor accidently stepped on it breaking it through the head (again, thankfully I could repair it too), but cellos on floors or instruments on chairs means they can be 'accidents waiting to happen'.

wow, what do you know, I was watching this video, when this happened, I had an accident and knoked my instrument againt the PC screen , last night I reached to pick up my instrument and it fell and slid across the sidewalk...

Well the poor guy didn't so much as drop it as have it knocked out of his hand by an overzealous Conductor. 😳

I have functional tics and one of my biggest fears is that I’ll tic while I’m playing. Once I was playing and a friend grabbed and pulled my arm.. I fell and my BRAND NEW VIOLA hit a table and got a chip to its varnish. I cried.

A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless here, dropped my violin once. But, he caught it on the way down, with cat like reflexes. I surmised that his blood sugars were low, resulting in a weak grip. Now, my violin isn’t expensive, and I don’t want an expensive one. I’ll buy an expensive bow instead, someday. But remember, it’s a THING, and things can be replaced.

Hi Olaf! I love my Piere Lomont Master violin!

The way Olaf slapped that lady with the violin at the end was something else. 😆

The Czech violinist checked everything. He checked the bridge; he checked the fingerboard; he checked the scroll; he checked the upper and lower plates. He checked everything. Why? Because he is a Czech.

Wow! The conductor knocked it out of his hands! How embarrassing! Orchestra's always seemed to be playing in cramped tight spaces, even when they are not hidden in pit as in opera and ballet orchestras. It must lead to a lot of accidents.

Last month I was stupidly balancing my double bass against my shoulder whilst fiddling with my music stand. It fell and the pegbox hit a wall really hard . Luckily it only sustained a crack in the one side of the pegbox, which I had glued up relatively inexpensively. it's a horrible sinking feeling when you see the instrument fall away from you.

His blue violin has areas of wear which reveal a natural wood/brown undertone. This, as far as I can tell, indicates that just the varnish is blue.

Wow, this must have been Pavel Šporcl, Czech soloist. I like to hear him. He has an interesting repertoir.

LOL! I was at a Joshua Bell concert in Louisville, KY, about 17-18 years ago and he was playing Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnol." He was trying out a new "Strad" and a few minutes into the first movement, the violin shot VERTICALLY out of his hands, did a double somersault, and came right back down IN to his hands. More amazing was that he DIDN'T miss a note!

I have a diary from 1910 of a man who played bass viol at dances- he traveled about. One entry says "Was driving and the bass viol blew out of the back of my wagon and smashed". Soon after, "Spent all day gluing the bass back together". A while later, "I glued it together wrong, have to do it again"

Now I have a mental image of violinists everywhere practicing "hacky sac" with violins "just in case". 😜 But seriously our instrument IS an extension of our being, hurting it, hurts our souls.

Two Violins knocked out of the Violinist's hands by the Conductors! 😲

I'm not a String Musician. I love hearing Stringed Instruments (especially the Cello & Double Bass), though. Too bad my hearing was ruined as a turbine engine mechanic. I do play Saxophone & Clarinet, however, and through 4 years of High School Band and 4 years of Being a Music Major in College, I've seen many instruments get damaged just prior to a performance...... I quickly learned how to do simple repairs to my instruments - at least, lasting long enough to get through a performance. Great advice on how to care for instruments!

what do you think of using fine steel wool to clean strings, is it a good idea?

When I drop something my instinct is to move my foot out of the way fast. What were these violinists doing about shoulder rests when their instruments slithered off?

Thank you for this info

Olaf, the sound was somewhat muffled when you spoke. Was that UA-cam punishing me for using an adblocker or did something bad happen to your microphone?

Looks like it slipped out from tightly gripping the violin with chin and shoulder. This happens only to those who use the shoulder rest

I made a cello once. Expertly crafted it from bits and pieces of thin ply, I exchanged it with my daughters school instrument, in the nylon gig bag she carted to and from lessons. As luck would have it on April fools day, I was required to lift some furniture, stepping backwards I trod on the bag, the crack was gloriously loud. "Oh it's broken anyway now" I said, stamping and crushing over and over. Wife and daughter went white as the driven snow...But you know what? It was always stored more carefully thereafter.

Keep it away from Eddy

I think care is also needed when you put a violin into or take it out of its case - you don't want that lid to close half way through the operation!

Stairs + musical instruments JUST DON'T MIX! Stairs are lethal at the best of times, then you have the added distraction of carrying an instrument while descending/ascending them and often you have both hands full so you can't hang onto the banister. And then there's spiral staircases - it only takes one minor lapse of concentration and you're gone. People who expect musicians to use stairs while carrying their instruments are absolute arseholes.

Use Celotape :)

Czech Republic mentioned, yay! I had the opportunity to hear this instrument from very close up and for very extended period of time, and I have to say that it would be good riddance, if the fall was more successful. Beautiful violin, not that good of a sound in it, however. My violin teacher had a run of the mill Špidlen, and the sound was luscious, warm and beautiful. My colleagues in conservatory has great sounding Špidlen violins as well. This blue one? That ain't it chief. Šporcl actually can play very well, and if he had a better sounding instrument, it would be better overall.

Hi Olaf, this is an excellent informative video! Thanks for making it. Kind regards.

Tell me, why do violin makers not use orbital hand sanders to thin the plates down when making or repairing a violin?

Really enjoy learning the odd trick of the trade from your videos, even if I have nothing to do with violins. When you say varnish, is that a shellac? Also when you polished, was that with a compound or just a thin cut of shellac?

Good luck taking anything from me! Just funning,,, maby 😂. Thanks for the information as usual.

I learnt but I forgot so im here 😂 tho I was the worst in the orchestra