By experiment, a large object such as a maple violin fingerboard took about 6 hours at a temperature of at least 330 F with about 3 teaspoons of sawdust. I take private lessons once or twice a month and found fiddlehed teaches tunes pretty close to how my private teacher does. Count on us for expert heating and cooling services, customized to meet your needs and backed by over 30 years of local experience. I really like that sawdust idea, though. (I suggest more sawdust to try to get all the oxygen eaten before the heat gets to the bridge.)

Also heat a small quantity of saw dust to act as oxygen „getter.“ @damfino I sent an email last night to a local violin shop asking if they know of any violin teachers who may be willing to work within my interests The old time tunes when you get down to it are simple. Sure, I might not get a classically trained, an experienced teacher (not impressed with any of those I have had), etc. The tunes on that particular set of cd’s are short performance versions of several tunes from the books. The cd’s contain a bunch of tunes from the books.

I found that (the looping) quite valuable as a beginner, and had a few email interchanges with Spinrush Casino him regarding some (incredibly minor, but potentially confusing points in a couple of his videos – he’s a good lad !) . Many technique videos are freely available. It is annoying to have to manually backup and reply videos I have been watching until I understand or can do it. I specifically appreciated his slow play-throughs of simple forms of a tune, then advancing on to more complex versions in a subsequent video.