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This one?

http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab11/heavg.html

/Ulla

Thanks, Roland!

Well, one of the nice things about getting old is that one tends to become less shy. And I figure that as long as there is progress, it is worth celebrating, and that a celebration is worth sharing 🙂

Really hope that others will follow.

I hope you fiddle nerds will go on posting in public threads so that the rest of us will still be able to read your posts; even though as a beginner I can’t contribute, I find it most interesting to read your discussions.

Wonderful!

The strathspey “Miss Lyle” and “The Hurricane” by James Scott Skinner; both can be heard in this video with Colin Fisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-o0qcXvC60

And from her first album “My Joy”: “Highlander’s Farewell”; I love the way she develops this tune!

I found a small scientific (!) study of viola strings “A Comparison of Viola Strings with Harmonic
Frequency Analysis” from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; perhaps it is interesting to violinists, too.

It compares (using spectrograms!) the sound properties of the following strings:

1. D’Addario Helicore
2. D’Addario Zyex
3. Jargar
4.…[Read more]

Hi Roland, I have never personally met an octave violin player, but it seems that here in Denmark there are only 2 brands of octave violin strings for sale: Thomastik Superflex that cost 1025 Danish kroner which is about $155, and Sensicore http://www.supersensitive.com/octave.html which cost 645 Danisk kroner or about $98.

The luthier that sold…[Read more]

Hi DianeG, do you have recommendations for violas as well? I have 2 instruments: a 42 cm (16.5 inches) Gewa Ideale, a really good beginner’s instrument, fitted with Thomastik Dominant strings, and a carbonfibre Mezzoforte of the same size with D’Addario Kaplan medium tension.

Best regards, Ulla

And if you have the audio files, you can use e.g. the free DAW “Audacity” to create new copies at a lower speed without altering the pitch, so you can get exactly the tempo you want (and you can also transpose an audio file without altering the tempo if you need that).

Well, perhaps my expectations where too high, although “The Band” is not what I would call cheap.

I’ll start looking for a microphone, then. Thanks, everybody, for your suggestions.

Thank you for your suggestion, but the UR22 is in fact an USB audio interface. I use a Cordial instrument (i.e. unbalanced) cable with Neutrik TR 1/4″ plugs from the pickup to the audio interface, and I strap on the pickup band as shown in the manual, i.e. so that the pickups are just below the strings right behind the bridge, i.e. between the…[Read more]

Thanks a lot for your answer; is that the one that you use? It certainly has a crystal-clear sound!

I do know a good luthier, so that’s no problem, but as far as I can find out, L.R.Baggs don’t have any “production” pickups for viola, but only make custom viola pickups on demand, and of course they must cost a good deal more than their standard…[Read more]

Sorry, correction: Not for my carbon fibre instrument, but for a wooden viola of the same size!

Yes, it does; thanks a lot.

I’ll go on with my little impressionistic butterfly project, then 😉

Perhaps better if you could export it as MusicXML; this is a general format that can be read by many programs, including the excellent, free music notation program “MuseScore”, and DAWs such as “Cubase”, which I happen to use 🙂

I hope so 🙂 Not because I don’t like Hanneke Cassel’s own compositions (I really do!), but because traditional tunes are not protected by copyright!

And by the way, I have a question about copyright; I have posted it under “Unfiddling”