How to clean and maintain your instrument
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2019
- In this video I talk about what you can do to keep your violin, viola, cello or double bass in optimal shape. With the right maintenance and cleaning you can enjoy it for years!
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really a very very clear and full, practise and complete explanation. Very useful. : Bravo Maestro Kimon. Grazie.
Thank you so much for your kind feadback!
For the black rosin mess use a wet/damp rag with some tripoi powder . The powder has rounded particles and is not very abrasive. It moves rosin but not varnish . The rag goes black to show what it has removed . It just makes varnish look shiny .
Blindingly Useful👌🍀
Thank you!
Im getting a violin tomorrow😊🎻
Great, enjoy playing!!!
Thank you so much for sharing these valuable violin maintenance tips with us.
You're welcome!
Awesome video 👍👍👍
Thank you!
Very good video. The only think I would add would be to lubricate the nut slots with a pencil lead. This can be done during a string change.
That's right! just in the same way as on the bridge.
Thanks Maestro Kimon, I´m violinist and always looking for a proper polishing oil in order to remove all dry resine on the top and the fingerboard. It is very complete equipment.
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Running the thread of the fine tuner over a candle work great.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean!
@@maestrokimon Instead of using oil, remove the screw for the fine tuner and run the threads through a piece of candle wax. The wax will get caught in between the threads and become the lubricant. After fitting the screw back to the fine tuner, run through the screw and unscrew the threads in and out of the fine tuner a few times to get rid of the excess wax. It safer, in my opinion, than using liquid oil and make much less of a mess
shaken not stirred Mr Bond. Nice vid lots of good stuff here
Always shaken, my friend!!! Thank you!
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Hi nice information thanks, I have a dumb question tho, can I leave the bow on the table after playing? Im scared that the bow will loose its form, should I hang it and which side? I dont know what to do
Hello Frank. You can just put the bow on a table or hang it by the top or frog. As long as you do it carefully. Don't forget to put of the tension after using it (by turning the screw counterclockwise). The bow is not so fragile as you think!!! (there are no dump questions by the way!)
@@maestrokimon Thank you so much!
So the rosin dusk only changes the appearance of the instrument but it will not damage the instrument itself?
It will damage the varnish at the moment that someone tries to clean it.
This was very helpful i have a cello and i have a question , is it okay to put cello on its back (not the bridge) when it's in its case?
When the cello is in the (hard) case you can put it on its back. If it isn't in the case the put it on the sides.
Sir. How do I remove severe build up of rosin from top of violin? Thx
If applying the oily fluid, should you not be make sure that there is no tiny cracks on the top in order to prevent the fluid from getting into the crack which would make it difficult to repair it once in a while?
I suppose that one controls his instrument for crack and if there are any they bring the instrument for repair.
How to clean the inside of the instrument?
With rice, but its not easy to put the last rice out of the instrument!
Cool.
Thank you!
With all due respect, you clean the rosin in the bowing area of the top plate and then you proceed to rub the same rosined cloth onto the rest of the instrument. This is like using fine sandpaper to get rid of the dust on the rest of the violin.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the black stuff on many instruments that were factory-made in the 1900’s, was the varnish, which often turned pretty black over a reaction to UV light?
Often instruments are varnished in a way so they look old, damaged and dirty from the beginning. This method was used a lot on German Factory instruments from the 1900's.
maestro-Kimon thanks!
Can you do a video on WITTNER ZW 916-Violin 4/4 pegs? Thanks in advance!
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@@maestrokimon Awesome, Thank you! Could you specifically note the sizes and how to fit them. From your videos I have started repairing my children's instruments.
Very helpful✌, but "Shake~~~~~~~~~~~~" made dizzy. 😝
Can I use the big bottle (the second bottle) on the top of the violin with the buck?
Sorry I don't understand your question. What means "buck"?
Sorry, I meant back
You can use it for the entire varnished part of the instrument.
Thank you for the info!
Cleaning the inside: fill a handfull of white rice through the f- holes and shake .The dirty rice will come out the other way....🤪😀
Thanks
The clean rise has to go in from the right side and the dirty will go out left... No, just kidding!!!! You are right Frank, this is the way. You coulδ also close the holes with some paper tape but stik it first on a piece of cloth so it does't remove or damage the varnish.
not sure if that is a troll or real advice, i can imagine both.
The part about the rise is not a trol. The part about entering on right and going out on the left is. As the rice is hard it hits the dust so it can be blown out of the instrument.
I have scratches at the bridge, how do I remove these scratches .. Thanks
Sorry, i don't understand what you mean. Please send me a couple of pictures by e-mail.
@@maestrokimon I will send a picture to you on the e-mail
and the fingerboard, how to clean it?
Daily, with a dry cloth.
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Thank you!
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Do you have to wipe the rosin off the bow after you pracice because i always thought that you have to wipe the rosin off the hair of the bow is this okei?
You don't have to wipe the rosin of the hair, only the stick of the bow.
@@maestrokimon but i hope by the fact that i did that before i hope that that doesnt affect the sound of the bow by rubbing the hair with a cloth😬
It isn't bud for the sound only unnecessary as you will have to put rosin on the bow the next time that you are going to play.
@@maestrokimon so in conclusion just after i practice just unwind the bow and clean violin strings with coth thats all yea?
The strings and the top, and then you are done for the day!
you can clean with eucaliptis oil
Isn't ok to revarnish your violin?
No, it is really bad to do that.
@@maestrokimon oh ok why is it bad?
The varnish is a part of the original instrument. Removing it would be like removing the top and making a new one. it's not like the paint on a typical object that can be replaced.
There are two ways to look at it. In these days, you can have cheap factory-made violin. If it's really violin that is made in series in factory and I would like to change the lacquer and would be willing to pay for it than I don't see a problem. But if it's luthiers piece, I wouldn't go in this direction. It's like repainting Mona Lisa. If it's made by luthier that is still alive, and you would still love to revarnish it, at least It should be made by him or with his permition.
But if he's dead you should keep the instrument as is. In honor to him you should preserve the violin as he made it 😊