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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

Yes, It's scary how brittle the wood get's as it ages.   REALLY fragile !  over-tightening strings, dry conditions, and just any slight impact will cause stress cracking in an older violin VERY easily, most wooden instruments face that prob at some point assuming they are hollow body instruments.. It's always suggested to loosten or remove strings during periods of storage for the body, and the necks sake.. Also. as far as I recall, it's been ages....Don't you just wipe with dry cotton cloth, and use ONLY lemon oil on the body sparingly ? I think I was told just lemon oil, nothing else.

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Here are some photos of my music gear.
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I screwed up 1 of the links here's the right 1

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It just dawned on my how thread could work.... loop it thru a needle so it has some weight, drop it in, and around the post, than tilt the violin so it falls back out the F hole..not a bad idea if it's standing and just needs some evening out. With my technical acumen, I'd likely by holding the violin above me trying to vibrate the thread towards the F hole to fall out and down..., While looking up, the pin would drop down and impale my eyeball, and i'd end up blind ....

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

WOW,  I'd NEVER have thought of that,  if you have both ends tied, you could get it at a diagonal, even stand it so it's partially wedged, clever....Not a hick at all, that's good thinking...Require's some patience, yet if I could get the post in place without losing my temper and smashing the instrument, that's a great idea, something that I'd never think of doing !!   Too bad their isn't as easy a way to shim the underside of a stress crack with hyde glue, and a shim.... That often requires separating the top of the instrument from the body, cutting the glue bind, and regluing the top. Not always doable with small angled forceps or tongs

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

Yep, I thought of that after I posted, and revised it...,  In actuality it makes more sense to use only one f hole and pull up on one end while slowly positioning the post into place, and lightly pushing it towards the front..... It wasn't immediately evident to me....It's good common sense thinking, and I should've thought of that, yet to be honest, I wouldn't have, clever problem solving abilities alot of these techs.. Some of we fools would be trying to bend a pair of tweezers, and using long nose pliers... to extend the reach  :(  Sheeesh,  this is why tech's should do tech stuff.......Sometimes creativity doesn't work,  like getting dings out've a brass instrument.... Never use a ball pein hammer and flat piece of wood  :(

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

That's the same design as my 3/4 size (which is a better violin than the full-sized violin I have),  Nice woodwork on the scroll.... Sharp looking instrument, Mine also has the pearl inlayed dot on the tailpiece.  That's the style most of the Strad copies use...If it says something like Antoine Cremonisis Stradivarious on the inside it's a Strad copy.... If you see the word "Hecho en", there's something fishy however !

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

Charmin dear!  This is Dawn, the nice Jewish mother that you never had.  Take a break dear, those little fingers must be getting tired by now.  Go have some hot chicken soup and step outside and breath some of God's fresh air.  Then come back inside a pick up your room. I'm worried about you!  Always at that computer of yours.  What's a mother to do?  

OK, I have to run too, vaguely getting recollections of music history, I think they went by something like Stradivarious Cremonisus, meaning he was from that area...I don't remember what the cremonisus <SP> stood for,  probably something like..."HAHA sucker, you just got hoodwinked"...  You know, some witty european sarcasm... or sumpin...  Later all..

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

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♥ Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain. Cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive. Because you only have one life to live. ♥

Rob, is that the BC Rich "Son of Beast" ?  I know VERY little about that model, actually nothing at all...  What model Paiste cymbal is that.. I need one that sized, don't want to pay the A or K Zildjian prices, and forget the ZBT series... Paiste is an excellent cymbal... Yet I'm no drummer,  I just bought a set of Pearl half-shells for the studio so I have something a jazz drummer can play in a combo,  I can always equip them with trigger's and get a fuller sound out've em assuming I wish too...Yet I need room.... I like Yamaha trap sets.....

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