Steve "Ripton" Nordborg

Thanks for that Jocelyn!

I will work through your suggestions over the next while. For the moment I have started experimenting with holding the fiddle in different positions and I’m surprised to notice how even minor changes can affect both the muscle strain and the playing itself positively or negatively. I also got a different shoulder rest…[Read more]

Thanks for clarifying this, Tom. I was hoping you’d fill us in on more info.
Here’s their youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@whiskeydeaf/videos

Hi Jocelyn, you misspelled Annie’s name it’s Staninec. She
plays in a group called Whiskey Deaf look them up on the internet.

Hi Caren – @fidil,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing this.
Would it be ok if we shared a link to your post in the member newsletter, to facilitate more folks to see it?

Some ideas come to me:

Positioning the instrument to us is something to continuously re-evaluate. Also, getting second opinions, where the person can see your body positioning…[Read more]

Hey Steve, great inquiry. Have you figured anything more out in the last week with this? I’d be interested to see you show a specific example of this.
I feel as though we can add double stops to anything we want, with any adjacent string, permitting it makes sense for us in terms of notes sounding good together, and that the technical aspect of…[Read more]