Honestly Edger, the information you share in your videos is worth its weight in gold, thank you for making your years of skill and knowledge so available.

The Gayford Carbon Strad Guy Thanks you! That is something I learned the hard way over a long period. How about a lesson on raising a A string power and a D string power. Most would love that.

Edgar, I really appreciate you giving all this precious knowledge to the world, for free. I hope I can visit you in the future in your beautiful establishment. I'm dreaming of having one of your master instruments one day. Take care and stay healthy.

Thank you sir for describing about weakness sound of G string, from India 🙏

Tweak your strings - awesome video. How to adjust to make the violin sound like a guaneri.

Fascinating stuff, thanks for explaining this. Can similar adjustments be made for the D and A strings. I have experimented with the sound post and was amazed at how much a small movement of the post can have on the sound. Thank you again.

You are the only violin maker on the internet that helped me solve my problem with one of my violin restore projects. I discovered I have one with a base bar that's 4 mm too far toward the center line! I only wish I had known that when I had the back plate off repairing a crack lol. Long story short, after cutting off the outsides of the bridge feet and sliding the sound post out a little bit the g-string came right to life! thank you so much Edgar!!

Thanks so much for these adjustment videos. I've been taking notes and doing before and after tests. 😊

Thank you thank you Edgar. What a difference this has made!

I just want you to know your sound adjustment videos have taught me how, finally, to get the most out of my violin. For one improvement, my soundpost had been way too far to the outside. Now that I've set it correctly according to the distance of the bass bar, my fiddle's sound has really "opened up" in terms of output and quality. I'm taking measurements nowadays in ways never before. I really appreciate it, and though I've been making do with the lesser tools I currently own, I'm hoping to save up for an Edgar Russ sound adjustment kit!

great video! thanks!! 🙌🙌🙌

That’s great and all for sure, but you can’t just neglect the other end of the post! There’s a lot going on down there. It’s not all just about where it meets on the top. The bottom(at least in my experience) is the controller for tone color, bow response and the core of the tone.

Thanks for the clarification on the mensura string length. I was looking all over the internet for a reliable value but found noting concrete just ranges form 325 to 330 mm. While playing with 330 in the beginning i alway's had problems with having to stretch my hand too much and couldn't quite play in tune. Then i experimented and ended up with 328 and now my teacher doesn't point out my out of tune ness anywhere near as often... Good to know that i wasn't just guessing it right. :)

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By moving the sound post out ward, aren't you putting more pressure on the plates? Shouldn't you be adjusting the sound post length itself as well

Hello, my G string is too strong on my violin. I have to play il slowly and to give it pressure. It is not easy to play tunes like this. The G string often rolls under the bow. How to make the G string weaker please?

Sir can we place two sound post both side E string and G string

Cello student here. How much does this apply to a student grade cello? I'm in the process of looking for my next cello but in the mean time, it would be nice to squeeze our some better response from my C string. Thanks

Thanks Edgar, I really enjoy the sound adjust meant series. I have a couple violins that seems to have a common problem weaker D string. I tried moving the sound post and adjusting or even scraping bits of the bridge, etc. But I was only able to get the G, A, E better or more balanced. The D seems to be hard to fix. Any advice? (obviously I may hit the limitation of these violins already) Thanks

i know her sister.... ami yokoyama😊

How would you repair a crack in the ebony fingerboard?

It may be better. What I hear still a nasal sound of G string after adjustment. Is it a brand new violin?

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I’ve been trying to figure out why my g string makes a ship horn kind of sound but I still haven’t been able to figure it out so it kinda makes me not want to play but I don’t know what happened

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where can I buy this?

Sound post adjustment is not for anyone other than a qualified violin maker/luthier. It's just too tricky to do yourself.