On 17/05/2012 06:12 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 09:12:49 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>> It took be about an hour to tune the violin when I first brought it
>> home. As soon as I let go on the tuning peg, it would instantly go slack
>> again. Took me ages to make it stick. Not sure if worn out or just
>> poorly made in the first place...
>
> Sounds like it's worn to me.  Peg Dope (which IIRC is the actual product
> name) is supposed to help with that.

Possibly doesn't help that I've never tuned a violin in my life.

Obviously, having your instrument correctly tuned is crucially 
important. So at school, the teacher always did that for us.

> Replacing the strings is easy.  I wouldn't pay someone to do it, just buy
> a set of Dominant or similar and replace them one by one.

Yeah, I already read that you shouldn't remove all the strings at once. 
I wonder how many other gotchas there are? Apparently it's also fairly 
important to have the strings properly routed through the pegbox... In 
all, I figure I should probably leave this one to the professionals. It 
probably won't even cost that much.

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