of course he's ok with anyone who walk in with cash ready. he will not dare to challenge with money.

if you try to annoy him more, he'll show his attitude, especially those more troublesome works that'll require lots of effort and time. i'm very fussy about my violin, and know exactly what kind of potential my violin has. asked him to tweak my violin more (even after he ruined my violin) he dare tell me he don't want to "waste" his time and ask me to tweak my violin myself, and get the tools myself.

imagine if he's a doctor and you're the patient, how will you feel?

by the way, remove all those "lil" in your post to make more sense. i wouldn't call RM1500~RM2000 violin selling at RM7000 "lil" high.
cheapest Arcus bow is already 4 figure range. i don't have any experiences with Coda, but once owned the Arcus top model before. my advice is, if you want to get an Arcus, choose the lowest range instead, top of the line model doesn't worth the price IMHO. i sold my Arcus because found an old brand-less wooden bow (said to be french) that play and sound way better than that Arcus, that cost MUCH lower.

So where can we find out own old French bows that cost MUCH lower as well? 

Btw, are there any Strad owners in Malaysia?

I do not know but you can try to find them in music stores.... lol. Not really a fan of CF bow coz bored of it already since been using it for many years since I was still a kid but Forgot all the feelings already. Coz I stopped 8 years in between.

Anyway... here are their websites.

http://www.codabow.com/
http://www.arcus-bow.de/english/01e_welcome.htm

you can contact them and acquire infos about their bows' availability and buy the bows directly from them. If you had no knowledge about this kind of international trade thingy. You can contacts some third party to help you bring them in.... Can easily find them in service noticeboard. those who helped others buy stuff from e-bayor amazon are the third party I am referring to....

of course he's ok with anyone who walk in with cash ready. he will not dare to challenge with money.

if you try to annoy him more, he'll show his attitude, especially those more troublesome works that'll require lots of effort and time. i'm very fussy about my violin, and know exactly what kind of potential my violin has. asked him to tweak my violin more (even after he ruined my violin) he dare tell me he don't want to "waste" his time and ask me to tweak my violin myself, and get the tools myself.

imagine if he's a doctor and you're the patient, how will you feel?

by the way, remove all those "lil" in your post to make more sense. i wouldn't call RM1500~RM2000 violin selling at RM7000 "lil" high.
cheapest Arcus bow is already 4 figure range. i don't have any experiences with Coda, but once owned the Arcus top model before. my advice is, if you want to get an Arcus, choose the lowest range instead, top of the line model doesn't worth the price IMHO. i sold my Arcus because found an old brand-less wooden bow (said to be french) that play and sound way better than that Arcus, that cost MUCH lower.

Thanks.  But little ice already mention 4 figure and I    liao. Haha
4 figure... I dare not to read further anymore. haha.  Out of my budget. I think I get a CF bow from Euro Music instead. 

Add me into the violinist list please.

Well, I think I've posted in the previous thread before, asking for a teacher and stuff. Good thing my music teacher at school is willingly teaching me how to play it.

Hmm, right now I can't understand some of the notes on a music sheet. Anyone know any good website that knows every meaning of the symbols in a violin sheet?

sure.... 

about the bold part...

memorize this... The treble clef's note



and this.... the purple part on violin

Ah, this helps with my learning very much! Thanks man! But eh, what does the little dots that sometimes appear beside a note mean?

nothing... Its just to separate each notes so you can read clearer. 

Really? My sister keeps saying it adds half/ 1 beat to a note if it's an eight note or something similar... Weird...

omg  ...I thought you were saying those dots beside notes at the pic I posted.



in that case, you were referring to dotted notes.



then yes...it add half the beat of its master.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_note

So those notes you just posted, does it mean they need to be slurred? As in move the bow in one direction while changing the notes? What does the 'tail' on the notes mean? Sorry for being so noob. My teacher didn't have time to teach me as she is busy with other stuff and I rarely have time to ask because of it. She's doing it for free too...

no worries, feel free to ask any question and the forumers will try to answer your questions provided someone is able to do so. You thank your teacher for doing it free for you.

The 'tails' on notes are not slur but tie instead. it indicates you to play all the notes at the duration of total time of all the notes 'tailing' each other. It can be played in one bow or more (usually happens to a very very long tie)

while slur.... you are bound to play in one bow or its not a slur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_%28music%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slur_%28music%29

i think cheapest Coda bow is also RM1xxx, or close to RM1000.

they're not exactly cheap, that's why i recommend euro music's CF bow, cheapest i've seen. you'll also see a lot of these on ebay for similar price, IMHO they're very good for the money.

be careful when you choose one, see if the hair is tight enough, and test it with your violin if you can as they'll still sound different from bow to bow.

by the way, remove all those "lil" in your post to make more sense. i wouldn't call RM1500~RM2000 violin selling at RM7000 "lil" high.

Ah, thanks a lot, again! By the way, I seem to have a problem with my violin. I use a tuner to tune it and stuff, and when I play my open strings, it's all okay. But when I press any other strings, it goes really off-tune. Anyway to solve this?

Well, would not hurt to be a 'lil' humble on the shop's image. 
so you tune your violin (assuming you tune all the strings) and its okie when you play on your open string.

but when you press other strings....wad do you mean by that? Or you would like to rephrase your question a lil?

Well, would not hurt to be a 'lil' humble on the shop's image. 

Simply put, when I play my open strings and I check it with my tuner, everything is fine. The note hits the desired pitch.

But when I press a string (e.g: I press the C string on an A string), the tuner says it's out of pitch.

How do I solve this?

hi all

i can see many violinist in this  thread

Too bad i am not one of them