violins are so fun thanks!WOW

Makes violin info fun! Thanks

Awesome WEbsite:) Its amazing what you can do!!

Love this site to bits. But Sheila please help me with a contact for Dr Fulton - you will remeber my enquiry earlier when I was writing my biography of Yehudi Menuhin. Have just heard the CBS Concert on Demand interview with Dr Fulton and James Ehnes and would like to contribute a few corrections about facts concerning the Lord Wilton del Gesu that belonged to Menuhin from 1978 until 1999.

I loved your site. I want to purchase 2 violins with a good sound for myself and my 11 year old. We are both beginners, but know enough that we want the quality. In years past, my older children took violin lessons. They did it with inexpensive student violins and got really frustrated and ended up quitting due to the sound and quality. Now, I am in a position to take it up and have a little money to spare... It wouldn't do me any good to "try" the violin out first, as I don't know enough of what to look for...I would be purchasing it in the Portland, OR area if anyone has an idea...

great information...my daughter comes to your site regularly when referencing violinists for inspiration...thanks

Great information on one of the most precious violins in the history of violin makers. Congratulations!!!

beautiful and useful site.thanks for all.

very nice friend! Thanks and congratulations!!!

I have a violin that I would like to get some info on? Beautiful Site

I was wondering if there was a way to get a email addy for David ? I have a violin to show him... I found your site, thanks for all this info by the way.

Great site......now that I have covered the pics I am on to the rest.

Thank you for very informative biography of Mr Kreisler.
My favourite piece of his is the Pugnani Praeludium & Allegro, played by Nigel Kennedy

Hello Sheila,

I came across your website a year or so ago, and again tonight. I am IN AWE of your website, which seems to have grown since my last visit. As a violinist and violin and viola teacher, I am so impressed with every facet of your site. Now I am very curious to learn more about you. I have never seen a violin website with more clever pictures and information for violinists of any age or ilk! You are obviously a dedicated and creative teacher, and a role model for the rest of us! THANK YOU!!!
Best Wishes, Susan Brenneis-Fisher

Dear Sheila, I enjoy your page a lot.
What a beautiful place, I leraned a lot about these superb luthiers thanks, thanks for your efforts to promote culture.
A big hug to you from Argentina.
Greetings

Wow, what an awesome site! It is so informative...I learned so much and I haven't even seen the whole thing yet! I'm definetly passing this one on to my teacher!
Thank you so much for the great DVD and pictures you sent my family! They were amazing! Thanks so much for giving us such a great keepsake!

Fantastic site Sheila...my students and I adore you!

Dear Shiela,
I discovered your website by accident and really love what you have done here. I hope you get a chance to try some of my violins that I made one day. By the way, I was Midori's violin maker-restorer back in NY and took care of her violins and bows at my NEW YORK VIOLIN SHOP. I t seems like only yesterday when she broke those e-strings at Tanglewood playing the Bernstein serenade! Look forward meeting you and all the best. Phillip Injeian.

I have been relearning the violin and love playing the violin! You have a realy cute sight!

Hello, Shiela.
My brother and I love this website! There's a lot of great stuff. We don't actually play the violin, though (we can play piano, guitar, drums, and VIOLA. But, that is just combined list.)but it's still KOOL. Anyway, we love your website. It's the best (and probably the only one that isn't an advertisemnet) violin website EVER!!!
We'll go on a LOT. Keep on adding things to the site!

Discovered you by accident, looking to see what violins F Kreisler played and owned. I am writing a pastiche about Sherlock Holmes who was in Vienna in 1891 and met Kreisler. K gave him some lessons as SH owned a violin which was said by Arthur Conan Doyle to be a Strad obtained for a song at a London street market but Kreisler proves it to be cheap copy. SH was of course. Carl

Hi!! Your website is soo awesome!! - Mariah
Ello! Your website is sooo cool!! I like it... alot.... Laura
Hi... like the site
Mykayla
hey wat up im a cellist and this is a cool site so like ya hi and by
Luke

HI I really like your selection on violin stuff very sophisticated.
Patrick


Hi I'm a Viola but I still love your website. I like your mice too.
Emma-

Thank you for your website. I am an amateur violin player( grade 3) and amateur violin teacher for beginners. Thank you for sharing your experience. Did you teach Esther Kim? I saw her name in one of the left hand position. I have been listening to her youtube videos.

Great site thank you so much. My grandfather was from Sligo,Joseph Bartholemew Higgins. I never got too meet him, but heard many tales of his youth in Sligo. May you always have a roof for the rain,walls for the wind, tea on the table;a warm fire & God in your heart. Jack

Hi Sheila, Love your site. Would you consider adding my site for people looking for teachers in the Chicago area?

je suis la petite fille de Marie Lecavellé, soeur de Victor Lecavellé domicilié rue de France à Béziers, enfants de Florent Xavier Lecavellé(1808/1858).

Thank you for the great piece on my grandfather, Dave Rubinoff, also known as "Rubinoff & His Violin"! This is the nicest thing I have found about him on the internet & I appreciate the effort you made in finding info & photos.I could close my eyes & picture my grandfather playing, when I found an MP3 of Rubinoff & His Violin during my web surfing. If you would like to check it out, it is at:
http://www.chambermusicexpress.com/samples.htm

Aloha Sheila,
Just want to thank you so much for your wonderful website. You really are an amazing person. Thanks for all you do. If you ever make it out to Hawaii please look us up.

Your website is outstanding! What a wealth of knowledge you have shared.
I will certainly be making use of many of your teaching recommendations. I know many who will benefit from hearing of your website. Thank you!

Very informative and useful site!! Congrats for making all your hard work available!

Wonderful site. I was doing a search for Fritz Kreisler when I found it.
Thank you.

Andy Zaplatynsky
Concertmaster
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Love your website, Sheila! I was referred to it by Roger Mace, and included it in our Suzuki school newsletter ( www.suzukicolumbus.org in case you'd like to see it).

Wow! There's so much I could say about your site but I'll simply say THANK YOU! I live in the Whitsundays (Queensland, Australia), and being a little remote it is very difficult to gain access to teachers. In fact the teacher I have at the moment is finishing at the end of this year and the nearest violin teacher will then be almost 2 hours drive away, so your site really was valuable. Thank you for your generousity in sharing your teaching experience.

I have hand make professional quality violins and have over 40 years experience. I would like to place a link on my new web site to your site if you could do the same for me. Sincerely, John Sipe

Sheila!
What a delightful site! I am a violin (and piano) teacher and have spent the last hour going through your site. I have enjoyed it immensely! You have given me some good ideas and even educated me. I will visit again.

I enjoy your 'Sheila's Corner'. I am the widow of Maestro Rubinoff. He must have meant a lot to you, judging your extensive writing of him. If you pull up Barnes & Noble and "Dance of the Russian Peasant" It is my rendition of his life. Sincerely, Dame Rubinoff

I came to your site many years ago and have been to countless music sites since. I have seen absolutely nothing to surpass or even parallel what you have created here. Congratulations, and keep up the fantastic work, Sheila!

Janice G. Augustus

Hi,

I'm a professional violinist up here in BC, Canada. I have been teaching violin privately and playing with the symphony here for some years. My stand partner at the symphony is also an awesome pianist and we get together at times for chamber music. We were debating on a Beethoven but then I heard a friend play parts of the Franck Sonata this past weekend at the symphony during a break and I became all excited to hear this beautiful sonata I had not heard in years. Then I asked my stand partner, "How about the Franck sonata?"...We are both in the mood for something passionate and something we can really "dig our teeth into!" Being French myself, I feel very excited at the prospect of playing this sonata I have actually never played. So it should be quite a treat! So, thank you for your site. I found it to be helpful and informative! I am guessing that you are a violinist yourself?...I often wonder when I play or students play, "Is this what the composer really wanted?" I often ask myself this question when it comes to how we express our feelings through the music...how we do a certain phrasing, how much bow we use, what bowing we use, etc. I guess all we can do is the best we can with the information we have.

Josie, BC., Canada

I enjoyed viewing your website.

Thank you very much for such a nice article about Mr. Perlman. I am his the youngest student and all the things are very nice. I loved to read about him. My name is Ania and I am 12. I have just moved from Poland to study with Maestro Perlman. With warmest regards from NY - Ania Filochowska
P. S. If you have some other interesting articles about famous musicians you always can send to me at aniafilochowska@wp.pl Many thanks, Ania