{"id":531,"date":"2023-03-27T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2023-03-27T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:22:30","slug":"violin-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Violin Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I resumed seriously playing I had some very old accessories.  In the picture below on the right is the old rag I used to wipe up rosin dust, and an old block of rosin, both dating back roughly 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-1024x555.jpg\" alt=\"David Bookstaber's new violin accessories\" class=\"wp-image-530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-1536x832.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-2048x1110.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-1040x564.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/New-violin-accessories-640x347.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to new strings I got new rosin, a new dust cloth, and in that little black cylinder next to the violin are concert ear plugs I began to wear in my left ear while practicing to prevent further hearing damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent some time researching strings to find something that would dampen the excessively bright timbre of this violin.  Some suggested getting synthetic core strings, and I now play on Pirastro Violino strings, although the improvement over other strings I tried is subtle at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I resumed seriously playing I had some very old accessories. In the picture below on the right is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violin","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}