Next time you are in Nottingham, you are welcome to drop by my new studio where I will be in the process of making my latest instrument.  (Currently under renovations but will be open very soon!) 
The studio is based at Hopkinson Gallery and Studios which is right opposite the train station in the heart of Nottingham.  There is also a great Teabar and cafe on the ground floor.... for more information and directions please visit my website www.nazavarius.com

I will primarily be making, however I am always happy to provide advice on anything string instrument related such as buying an instrument or repairs/restorations to your current instrument.

Please message me here or email me info@nazavarius.com if you would like to get in touch.

Narelle

Promoting of your music is so important for creating your identity. Now, in today’s market, everything is being marketed through the right way of marketing. Nothing can be sold without the right promoting. You will be proved wrong if you think that music cannot be promoted, it just need the talent with appreciation. If you are involved in music, you need to feel the basic of that your music is your product and all listeners are the customer of your product. It is just in your hand to make your users to your fans and convert them to find out for your music composes.

You might get a record deal for your songs by a film maker, songwriter, composer, or a musician. But it is not enough for you while it is talking about achieving the success. You can fill the distance between your product and your customers only with the turning your listeners into your fans. They will love you and make you encouraged for making new composes. There are some tips that are being so helpful to promote your music for your fans.

Effective ways to promote your music:

1.      If you are thinking about the starting point of promoting music, it will be ideal to chose first your city or hometown because here you are already established. It will be benefited for you as people also know you for a long time. You need to make first a plan for promoting your music.

2.      Remember that your image is your version of a better you. Your image works as the food of your music. So you need to give a good package of food for promoting your music.

3.      Then you should burn some CDs or DVDs with your recordings and hand out to local pubs, nightclub, restaurant, coffee shop and hotel, even in educational institution. It will give you the opportunity of performing offers. You must include your name, band name/ artist name, and contact information.

4.      If you want to promote your music on the internet, you will get more than one way to do it. Make

5.      Upload videos of your performance, recordings and gigs on website. You can see happening with a great success.

6.      If will be better if you create your own website or your own web page on any of the social networking sites. It makes you sure that it is so easy to upload and navigate quickly.

7.      If you are on internet, the whole world is watching you. Your site will be promoted successfully by on page links, creative content and keywords. Keep posting links on your site.

8.      Getting feedbacks mean people like you and your music. You need to be sure that a feedback box, Email ID, Area fields are included in every page. You can forward one member your new videos with a personal message.

9.      There are many indie radio webcasts available. It will give you live on radio. It is an alternative to a live performance. Professional pictures in cool location are also very important to promote your music. Post these pictures with your band logo as professional pictures are taken very seriously in the music industry.

10.  Keep focusing on your target. You need to try to know your fans’ likes and dislikes, and their tastes in music, their shopping place, their hang out, their address, etc. It will help you more to reach at their first.

Apply these tips to promote successfully your music. Put your rocker mind and start to rock the town.

Music is an art form of creativity and its medium is sound and silence. It helps soothing the disturbed soul and inspiring for living the life fullest. For people’s different testes of music, it is divided indifferent types of music, e.g., Classical music, jazz, metal, rock, folk, etc. But the main thing is the same to touch the heart so that it can be the expression of our heart’s saying. For understanding the sense of different music, let us have a look on it.

Classical Music: it is a complex form of music. It requires high skills of music, like learning the ragas and the capability to coordinate with other musicians. You have to maintain the complexity of the relationship between its emotional flows.

Jazz Music: it is featured by the strong and complex rhythms. Cornet, violin, etc. that helps to carry a melody through it. Jazz music is a rhythmic music.

Metal music: After the Second World War, Metal music is emerged. With the heavy influenced of the song structure, it becomes a melody of the song. The central melody of Metal music decides the song’s structure. This type of music has another name that is ‘information music’.

Rock Music: Rock music is the result of hip-hop culture and known as ‘Hip-hop music’ that is always played by the use of guitar, violin, fiddle, bass, piano, and drums. The bass is the main instrument of this type of music. This is used in different feelings, like- anger, pride, and others. It shows the heavy flow of music of Jamaican and its root was found in African American and West African music. West Africa is the name where it was played first by a group of traveling singers and poets.

Folk Music: This type of music is a kind of the traditional music. By playing this type of music, you can reflect the emotions of common laity. It has two sub genres that are Popular music and Tribal music. This type of music shows one state’s struggle and culture.

All of these songs are popular in different way and these music are played by the help of different types of instruments, such as- piano, bass, violin, drum, guitar, etc. f you are a musician, you need to choose the right one which will stimulate you with enthuse to make the perfect music.

Apparently, music seems to have no link with our living. It is unnecessary part of our life. But, it is universal. It is found in all the human societies. Whether it is ancient or modern, music has its strong stand always. Scientists are trying to prove how it can be.

The evidence of musical activity is found in the ancient past. Even in new born babies, and some other animals like monkeys, whales, dolphins, and birds have possessed a built-in tone rhythm. Every culture and society we’ve ever looked at, have their own music to represent their own typical heritage. The reason is very mystifying.

The Evolution of Music

Apparently, music seems to have no link with our living. It is unnecessary part of our life. But, music is universal. It is found in all the human societies. Whether it is ancient or modern, it has its strong stand always. Scientists are trying to prove how it can be.

The evidence of musical activity is found in the ancient past. Even in new born babies, and some other animals like monkeys, whales, dolphins, and birds have possessed a built-in tone rhythm. Every culture and society we’ve ever looked at, have their own music to represent their own typical heritage. The reason is very mystifying.

The scientists, with the help of latest technologies, have tried to shed new light on how the brain works in response to music. The brain scientists and the neurologists claim that music provides a panoramic window that gives the picture of neural organization responsible for the complex behaviors of persons. The music module is not like a small gland, but a processing system that provides the mental information.  The system is composed of circuits of cells that are specialized for music processing. The cells scatter through the brain. This processing has enabled man to develop the capacity of humming to composing a piece of music.

Music is viewed by the scientists as an interesting, but evolutionary unrelated artifact. Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory, holds that music is the least use to man in reference to his daily habits of life. It is mysterious how men are capable of music faculty. Darwin suggested that, it first evolved in our animal ancestors as a system of inducing sexual partners for courtship. Gradually, the song of animal became the part of courtship, and later it became a part of human nature.

Music plays the role of social consistency, and strengthens the group bonds against outsiders. The military marches, or the community song, or the pep songs of school are the obvious applications. Some experts are, however, of the opinion that the music regulates or influences the emotions.

It is, however, not clear, which assumption about the origin of the music is acceptable. Everything is open to deliberation and discussion. Above all, interconnection of music with society cannot be denied. The influence of music on society can be traced back to prehistoric age. Throughout history, man has created and listened to it for various purposes. Music has served to express emotions, such as, joy or sorrow very effectively.

Music has been supposed to have transcendental qualities that have led it to be used as an aid to religious worship. It reveals the quality of the performers, from mood swing to biochemistry. Music is the ever changing and ever increasing gift of god. It is free. It is available to all who seek it. It is the true form of communication.

Music is viewed by the scientists as an interesting, but evolutionary unrelated artifact. Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory, holds that music is the least use to man in reference to his daily habits of life. It is mysterious how men are capable of music faculty. Darwin suggested that, it first evolved in our animal ancestors as a system of inducing sexual partners for courtship. Gradually, the song of animal became the part of courtship, and later it became a part of human nature.

Music plays the role of social consistency, and strengthens the group bonds against outsiders. The military marches, or the community song, or the pep songs of school are the obvious applications. Some experts are, however, of the opinion that the music regulates or influences the emotions.

It is, however, not clear, which assumption about the origin of the music is acceptable. Everything is open to deliberation and discussion. Above all, interconnection of it with society cannot be denied. The influence of music on society can be traced back to prehistoric age. Throughout history, man has created and listened to music for various purposes. Music has served to express emotions, such as, joy or sorrow very effectively.

Music has been supposed to have transcendental qualities that have led it to be used as an aid to religious worship. Music reveals the quality of the performers, from mood swing to biochemistry. Music is the ever changing and ever increasing gift of god. It is free. It is available to all who seek it. It is the true form of communication.

Now violin making is an overlooked art which is mostly forgotten. There are so many violin making school and many more maker who can make their artistry in every violin. It is a very great work and essential to the expression and conservation of music. The earliest beginning of the violin has been a personification of the highest principles of art. Making of violin is more than an expertise. It involves more specifically from mere manufacture of a violin. There are so many experts who are mastered in many areas and they perform on many skills. Skill, knowledge and discipline are the first attention and raise the fairy story of the mysterious secrets. Design and construction depends on its curved lines and curved exterior which are bent most favorable lightness, flexibility and strength. Except these Violin Making School can make you tool maker, acoustician, musician, varnish maker, art restorer and merchant etc.

Tailpiece wire should be in standard quality and it is so easy to fit in it. You can’t imagine how is it simple to fit the wire? It is just incredibly simple if you follow some steps. You should remove it by unscrewing the brass hole stops from the threaded ends of the cable which is made with steel. Every end of the cable is running at the bottom of this part through the holes and replace one brass hole stops. One end of the thread runs through another hole of the tailpiece. After that it replaces one brass hole stops. Another end of the cable thread runs through the other hole of this part and it replaces the second hole stop. Tailpiece is an instrument on its black allow to the rest in the correct position cloth. By fingers you can adjust the wire to length for screwing the brass hole stops.

Even though, there are a number of violin schools in and around the world the most popular is still Suzuki violin schools. People prefer these schools above the others because of the advantages these schools have. The Suzuki method makes the learning of the violin interesting. The main advantage of this method is that the student can start at very early ages of 3, and the parents are allowed to stay with them. This student-parent-teacher communication is the thing what makes Suzuki popular. Traditional method is different from this. Only student are allowed  in the class. Parents are not directly allowed to participate. Another important difference is that, students learn music pieces. But in traditional school the students are need to learn method of reading music. In the violin schools of Suzuki method ,the students are made to hear one song again and again, and let them play it consequently. Students play either independently, or with groups. This is done frequently until they are get habituated.

The history of evolution of violin schools in England is historical one. The industrial revolution during the eighteenth and nineteenth century brought sudden changes in the lives of the people. The people engaged in agricultural activities moved to cities and towns to work in the mills, factories, and other small scale industries. In some cities, like London the class differences divided the upper from the lower classes. The upper classes in their endeavor to educate the lower classes established educational societies. One of them is the “Concerts for the People”. The cultivation of music seemed to pacify the rowdy makeup of the working classes.  The massive sharing in the sight-singing concert classes led to the opening of violin classes for the grownups. Many of these classes were designed after sight-singing classes. A review in The Musical Times wrote that in 1882 the violin school Midland Mechanics Institute in Birmingham in England was set up.

For learning Suzuki method, step into String Beans School for violin. Guided by the established method for the expansion of musical talent, String Beans makes better and improve the lives of the children and their parents to help children develop a permanent love for the music. Learning to play violin enhances self-worth, build span of attention and increase self-control. The program of learning violin under Suzuki Method lays the foundation for the future music with the up-to-date music curriculum. The participation of parents creates chances for children and the parents to be bonded musically.Socialization skill are developed through Group Instruction. It is also helpful to build up friendship. This method of teaching offers chances for the students to learn from their equals in a very amiable atmosphere. The students in this violin school receive such a unique education in music that it  will linger with them for years to make them a complete child.

There are some important factors that you should keep in mind when you consider admitting a violin school. First, make a tour to your known music schools of your option. After that go on line for approval. Talk to the Principle over phone and contact the associates in the industry. After getting the initial feedback from the acquaintances, make a visit to know more about the school’s services, values, staffs and equipments. The most important of all is to know more about the aptitude and skill of the violin teachers of the school where you want to get admitted. Ask the authority of school how firm they are in appointing violin teachers. Finally, find out the charges for music lesson per month or per session, or per sitting in the violin school. Also, make sure how often the classes will be held. The best you can do is to locate a reputable violin school.

If you have profound affection for the sound of the violin and desire to play it as skillfully as a proficient musician they you must search for violin school of repute to learn the playing of violin. If you are in search of a good violin school, you should know some important things. Before you search for a violin school, get a violin of your own. Because you need to practice the playing violin simultaneously with the learning. The more you practice the more you will attain perfection. This will inspire you to follow more and develop your skills. Do not feel awed and also not relinquish. Practice more and more whenever you get time. Remember that getting mastery over the violin through rigorous violin lesson is very arduous. The best is to learn the violin to find out a violin school which contented situation and an experienced violin teacher who can guide.

Music influences all areas of life. When the students master the skills and discipline used in music he or she will also build greater confidence and an individual sense of accomplishment that will serve to enrich his or her life. Violin lessons can be expensive especially if you are looking for private lesson. There are so many who cannot invest huge amount. Your long time dream of playing violin will be put on hold because of these circumstances. A violin school may fulfill your dream. Admitting to a violin school will solve all your problems. We are often asked about the exact start up age for the child to begin violin lesson. You should start teaching your child violin lesson as young as possible.  The young children got a very natural pitch for learning. This instinct should be taken care of by admitting them to a violin school before it becomes paler, as it is almost always does, if not nurtured in time.

Before we know about the violin school we should know about the instrument .The violin initiated in the first half of 16th century in Northern Italy. But the inventor is still unknown. So it will remain open to discussion. Most of the writers and scholars recognized Andrew Amati of Cremona of 1511-1577 as the first identified violin makers because credentials of two violins he created between 1542 and 1546 had been found. These instruments had three strings like rebec played withbow. The four string violin also created by Andrew Amit also. But the other source credits the creation to Gaparo di Bertolloti da Salo of Brescia. By the middle of the 19^th century violin became so popular that they began to be mass created. Huge number of violins bearing the names of Amati, Guarneri and the others were produced in large scale. This leads to establishment of violin schools and violin teachers.

One of the up-front objectives for LuthierBuilt is for it to become a truly international venue, as opposed to one focused on a single country or region. The goal is to help musicians and artisans connect in all countries where English is a commonly-spoken language. Only 6-plus months into being online, the site is well on its way to meeting this objective.
See the newsletter article for the list of countries, and for information on LuthierBuilt's steady growth.

Dear String Players living or visiting the Boston area,

Would you be interested or do you of any string players who might be interested in coming to a brunch at Tavern in the Square next Sunday April 3rd at 11am? (1815 Mass Ave on the corner of Lesley University building in Porter Square CAMBRIDGE)

My friend and violin teacher/author Mimi Butler is visiting Boston, and will be there. There are 13 people attending so far. The buffet at Tavern in the Square is outstanding.

My email for contact: abcsofstrings@gmail.com

Janice Tucker Rhoda
Author ABCs of Strings
Publisher Carl Fischer Music
http://www.abcsofstrings.com/jtrbio.html

Now living in southern Australia, Jim Robinson has been a maker and restorer of bowed instruments for four decades.  He is an active musician, and in this article he shares his knowledge about the violin market, and his expertise, hopefully demystifying the purchase process for other players.  His violin-related insights will interest players of all stringed instruments.

• The Mysteries of Violin Pricing and Selection
  

Enjoy the read,

Bob

Luthier Built's logo can be seen here.

LuthierBuilt.net will be launched this fall.

Best to all,

Bob

Dear friend:

The Luthier Built project will provide valuable information about stringed instrument makers and restorers in many countries.

It will be important to publicize the resource to musicians who live in those countries. You can help by letting me know the musician websites and publications that are prominent where you live.

I will share the results with you, if you indicate your interest in the survey form, which is at:

- https://sites.google.com/a/bobnewby.com/luthier-built-public-surveys/

Thank you for your generosity and interest.

Best regards,

Bob

I would like to share a story about the experience of Mr. Gaspar Borchardt of Cremona : I discussed with him the problems of wood treatment a lot of times.

During the better part of fifteen years we have been acquainted, first mistake he made was his lack of patience which resulted in the wood he was working with being taken out of the
water too early ( after about 6 months ), second mistake he made was using the same wood to make a violin a few months latter. His third mistake was that the next batch of wood
he attempted to treat was submerged with a too low a ratio of water to wood ( too little water too much wood ), 102 mistake he made was ....., 403 mistake he made was...
It took a few years for him to completely unintentionally go back to the first batch of wood he attempted to treat and unhappy with the results dismissed the value of the wood treatment.
He made a violin which he did not consider important but when completed turned out to sound incredible, his lack of patience was compensated for by time, and the bacteria in the wood completed the process by themselves in the course of the few years they were left on their own.
I hope you understand that the treatment does consist of submerging the wood in water ; active processes start at the point of wood being taken out of the water.

The important thing is to understand that after the wood is taken out of the water the real treatment begins; and that the wood instead of being immediately dried should be kept moist as long as possible.

The story about Paolo Vetorri :ten years ago, he made the trip from Bologna in order to share his short story with me : " I was very young, at the beginning of my career, my grandfather talked me into submerging a great quantity of wood ( Into which I had sunk my life savings ) under water. I did so and after a while the wood turned very dark and practically unusable. I was very angry at my grandfather and did not speak to him for a long time believing that he ruined the beginning of my career. Only now, after 50 years do I realize my mistake; I had not submerged the wood properly so it was, after absorbing a great quantity of water, partly exposed to air. This caused it to darken and be unusable. Now I know that you and my grandfather are right".
What I am trying to say, is that making mistakes in this process is inevitable, but large mistakes can be avoided if : you allow app. 10 liters of water per one piece of violin wood; put it all into a container that does not have acidic reactivity ( plastic container ), under no circumstances into a metal one; this wood should be kept under water at all times with a glass or a plastic weight , stone and metal both cause acidic reactions,wait until the wood stays at the bottom by itself after the weight is removed and than leave it for another few months under water until the wood is completely permeated with water to its core.

Allow me to digress a little regarding your comment that it is necessary for the wood to be fresh in order to be treated. If we assume that average air humidity of our environment is 77 % we can then conclude that the wood stored in your workshop is NEVER dry, however much you hoped for it and that this wood, as any other organic matter, contains bacteria within. This bacteria may not be completely active and able to proliferate. But they are not, by any means dead. They can lay dormant for years until necessary conditions of humidity and temperature are met. Therefore it is absolutely possible to treat the wood which has been stored for extensive periods of time. 

Let us go back to our previous theme. So ; you have taken the wood out of the water; now the real process starts and also the possibility of making mistakes raises dramatically .

Example :

a. you have stored the wood in a place that dries it too fast,the bacteria get lazy again before they have disintegrated enough sugars within the wood;
b. you have stored the wood in a place too humid ( a cellar for example ), on the surface a fine cobweb has formed, yeast has developed which enter the structure of wood, eat the basic protein structure of wood and your wood is now unusable;
c. you have done everything correctly, but have stored the wood on a shelf and are patiently waiting for months only to discover that yeast has formed again on the surface of the wood touching the shelf it was stored on. Oh no ! You have forgotten to elevate the wood from the surface so that the air can circulate freely.
d. you have done this previous point correctly but have forgotten to leave the necessary distance of min. 3 centimeters between two pieces of wood, in this space excess humidity allowed the yeast to form and again you have a problem.
e. you have done the previous correctly as well, but have allowed the back of the wood to be too close to the wall and again yeast has attacked.
f.Very important question is if the wood has been stored on the shelf ( strip of wood separating it from the shelf ) with the bottom surface being the wider part of the wood or if you have laid it down on it's side ?
My visit to Guiccardi 1999: he showed me 150 pieces of violin maple wood in his workshop of which he considered 147 to be inferior and only 3 usable for making a high quality violin; when split, only the 3 pieces had the same tone on the left and the right side when knocked on. He was desperate because all of the wood was of high quality to start with and he could not fathom why this was happening.
" Only these three pieces can be used to make high quality violins the rest also have to be used for violins, and this leaves me with an existential and moral problem, because I can not make a living from just three violins ".
I tried to explain to him that in wood stored in this manner ( on top of each other ), humidity in worm months moves upwards just as vapors do and that in the more humid parts of the wood, being permeated with more active bacteria, less sugar remains therefore making
the difference in tone inevitable.Generally his problem contained in his less than careful storage of wood.
g. You have done everything right, but somewhere between 12.00 and 1.30 on a summer day sun enters your workshop and lingers on the wood for a while, your wood starts drying too rapidly and cracking, micro air pockets have formed within the wood , your hair has risen and at this point you responsibly decided to change your profession...

My advice: find 3 pieces of maple wood cut from the same tree and also 3 pieces of spruce wood also cut from the same tree, mark each of them with a date. First set a maple and a spruce store exactly as you have been doing so far in your workshop. Second set a maple and a spruce throw into the water as I previously elaborated.

THIRD SET A MAPLE AND A SPRUCE, AS THE OLD MASTERS PROBABLY DID, LEAVE SOMEWHERE IN YOUR YARD WHERE THEY ARE NOT EXPOSED TO TOO MUCH HUMIDITY, NOT EXACTLY ON THE GROUND, WHERE THEY ARE SOMETIMES TOUCHED BY THE SUN AND SOMETIMES RAINED ON.

The second set of wood you should take out of the water after approximately 18 months and follow my previous instructions perfectly, and please avoid any mistakes!

DO NOT BE CONCERNED IF THE WOOD FROM YOUR THIRD SET TURNED GRAY, IT IS ONLY ON THE SURFACE, INSIDE IT HAS BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN BROWN COLOR, THE CRACKS FORMED BY THE SUN ARE NOT DEEPER THAN 6 MILLIMETERS,SO YOU CAN CUT THEM OFF WITHOUT A PROBLEM. SOMETIMES ROTATE THE WOOD, MOVE IT TO ANOTHER CORNER IN YOUR YARD... IN OTHER WORDS TREAT IT AS ANY WOODWORKER EVEN TODAY TREATS HIS WOOD; WITH EASE AND NO TREPIDATION.

Few years later make violins out of the three sets of wood, one after the other. Compare them.

My comment : If you allowed me I would advise you to skip the first two experiments altogether- you are wasting your time !

Don't think it is easy for me while my wife ( whose English is much better than mine ) is translating this letter to you. I would just be very happy if I managed to save you 30 years of unnecessary and painful experiments.

Milo Stamenkovich

Of possible interest to those who spend time alone with their violin. Is this a life style? What can one say about it?

Visit Grassapelli to see my hit on this kind of issue.

The header art was done by my son Robert, the trumpet player.