Fiddlevideo | Roland White | Mentions https://www.fiddlevideo.com/members/roland/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Roland White. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:53:48 -0800 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a6c77e1068835ff32c4bac7aa3a9a7fd Casey Willis replied to the topic Arthritis Tips in the forum Fiddling Techniques and Playing Advice https://www.fiddlevideo.com/forums/topic/arthritis-tips/#post-15506 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:06:46 -0800 Hi, Jim. I don’t have any advice specific to arthritis…perhaps @roland does??

The only thing I might suggest is stretching your hands/thumbs for 5 minutes before & after playing…I know that is a good idea in general, and I would think it would at least help some??

I feel your pain, sir…I’m a week out from having my left thumb ope…[Read more]

]]> 0 96a464c6989fa5ad13aac9b2e86733bf Wafflestomper replied to the topic Violin make and strings? in the forum Fiddle Setup and Repair https://www.fiddlevideo.com/forums/topic/violin-make-and-strings/#post-8733 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 04:28:38 -0800 @Roland
How often do you have to change those? Are they pretty resilient?

That fiddle I bought had a set of Infelds, not sure which version. Even though they were pretty old.. I kinda liked the way they sounded.

I put a set of Helicores from another instrument, and they were way way too bright.. its a pretty loud fiddle.
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