At an early age Mark O'Connor was considered a child prodigy winning national titles on the fiddle, guitar and mandolin as a teenager.
In 1975 at age thirteen, O'Connor won the prestigious Grand Masters Fiddle Championships in Nashville against amateur and professional competitors of all ages.
He is a four-time grand champion at the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest in Weiser,Idaho 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1984.
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Violin StringsMade from Spider Silk
NARA, Japan, March 5 (UPI) -- A Japanese researcher says thousands of strands of spider silk spun into a set of violin strings can yield a "preferable" timbre for many musicians. The way the strings are twisted, resulting in a "packing structure" that leaves almost no space between any of the strands, provides a "soft and profound timbre" compared to tradition gut or steel strings, said Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan's Nara Medical University, who has been interested in the mechanical properties of spider silk for years. |
Types of Violin Strings There are many different types of violin strings. How do you know which ones will work best? Steel Core, Gut Core, and Synthetic what does this mean?
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