Monthly Archives: October 2011
How To Properly Hold A Viola Bow
How To Hold The Bow – Place your thumb in the C of the bow frog and place the other fingers on the other side of the stick with the pointer finger towards the tip of the bow. Keep the … Continue reading
How to Properly Hold a Viola by Violaman.com
Begin with your legs comfortably spread at about shoulder width apart. Start by placing the viola on your left shoulder/collar bone, lifting your chin slightly and placing the end pin of the viola towards the center of your neck. Lower … Continue reading
First Time Setting Up An Instrument Shipped From A Store
This is what you do when you first receive an instrument shipped from a store. See how to check that everything is OK and tune carefully so that the bridge doesn’t fall and is in the right position. How to … Continue reading
New page added to Violaman.com
In an attempt to equal Fiddlerman.com Violaman has added a page called “VIDEOS”. This page will eventually fill with many how to videos and tutorials for viola. Two videos were added today for the basics of how to hold the … Continue reading
Win a Cecilio CVA-400 Viola
Congratulations to Mustang for winning the CVA400 viola. Details about Mustang soon to come. Thanks for all who participated. The CVA-400 comes with everything you need to get started. It’s a beautiful instrument and produces a great sound right out … Continue reading
Cecilio’s CVA-600 Viola Review by Violaman.com
First impression when opening the box and the case was that this is a beautiful instrument. Nicer than expected and hard to believe that one could get such a nice instrument for so little money. After checking the instrument and … Continue reading
University of Tennessee Viola Celebration to be held This Weekend, Oct. 22-23
UT Viola Celebration 5th Anniversary Extravaganza October 22-23, 2011 The University of Tennessee is proud to announce the Fifth Anniversary Viola Celebration is scheduled for October 22-23, 2011. Violists of all ages and abilities are encouraged to join the festivities … Continue reading
What’s going on at Violaman.com?
OK, so we just got violaman.com rolling with much ambition for the future. Presently I am adding simple appropriate sheet music a little at a time with hopes of building a giant unique library much similar to Fiddlerman.com. Today I … Continue reading
Fiddlerman’s Christmas project 2011 – What Child Is This and Carol of the Bells combined | Fiddlerman
The 2011 Fiddlerman Christmas Project is complete. See what we accomplished. I will be accepting suggestions for the next project on the forum. A great big thank you to all who participated. See the instructions from before making the video … Continue reading
Viola – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola’s body is between 1 inch (25 mm) and 4 inches (100 mm) longer than the body of a full-size violin (i.e., between 15 and 18 inches … Continue reading