The Violin

• Pedagogy
• Equipment
• Link Collections
• Oddities of Interest
• Celtic Fiddle
• Companies
• Violin Discussion
• Local Interest (Silicon Valley)
• About the Author

Pedagogy

• Westbury Park Strings
• The String Pedagogy Notebook
• Nathan Cole's Violin Site
• ViolinStory Online
• Indiana University String Academy Repertoire List
• David Sills on Practicing
• Robert Lipsett: Apotheosis of the Violin

Equipment

• Strings Magazine: Find Your Sound (string reviews)
• Ifshin Violins: Guide to Choosing and Using Strings
• Wilder and Davis: String Color Code Chart
• Quinn Violins: String Identifier
• Casa del Sol Violins: Care and Maintainance Tips
• Shar: Resource Guide for Bows
• Salchow's How to Select a Bow

Link Collections

• The Dutch Violin Page
• The World Violinist Links
• ViolinWeb Ring
• VioLink

Oddities of Interest

• Sound, Tone, and Violin Physics
• Violin Acoustics
• Violin Image Gallery
• Violin-Related Fiction
• Why is it that practice makes perfect?
• Nature and Inquiry
• The Ensouled Violin (short story)
• The Music of Sherlock Holmes
• ThemeFinder

Celtic Fiddle

• Scottish Fiddle Music
• SlowPlayers.Org
• MudCat: Digital Tradition Folk Music Database

Companies

• Shar
• Thomastik-Infeld
• Pirastro
• The Strad
• Strings Magazine

Violin Discussion

• String Asylum
• MaestroNet
• Sheila's Violin Corner Bulletin Board
• Strings Magazine Forum
• Violinist.Com Discussion Board
• Soundpost Online Forum
• Beginning Adult Violin Study (BAVS)
• Chamber Music Players (CMP) List
• String Quartet Playing
• David Oistrakh (also general violin record collecting)
• Yahoo Club Masterclass
• Yahoo Club Masterclass 2

Local Interest (Silicon Valley)

• Bay Area Classical Music
• Chamber Musicians of Northern California
• San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers
• Peninsula Scottish Fiddlers
• Ifshin Violins
• Kamimoto Strings
• Scott Cao Violins
• Stevens Violin Shop

I've been studying the violin since the age of five, though with a nine-year hiatus between childhood and adulthood. I play with a variety of Bay Area community groups, and do freelance semi-professional work from time to time. Click here to read more about my upcoming performances and musical background.