Okay I have a 6 string violin and its brand new and yeah I was kinda just wondering how long it took people to get used to the bow? I seem to be having serious issues just playing individual strings? Is this normal? How long does it take to learn? Any advice? Thanks much people.

wow, i never heard of a 6 stringed violin. is the last string an F or something? Ill ask my teacher about it when i can and i'll get back to you.

It does seem to be an oddity!! But I am odd too. Last string is F. The last 2 strings are viola. (C and F) thanks though :D

yeah it is pretty hard at the start. its all about your elbow movements. move your elbow go to a lower sounding string. towards the f one. move it down go to a higher string. its just practice

The last 2 strings are viola. (C and F)

The viola doesn't have an F string.

Crap the dude at the violin store told me it did! Well the F string sounds like crap anyway maybe I'll just take it off.

You could have a bridge with insufficent curvature. A five string violin is muxch harder to play than a four string, so presumably a six string is harder still. The strings will be closer together which means you will have to be a lot more accurate. Frankly, it probably wasn't a wise buy for a beginner.

Liz

Crap the dude at the violin store told me it did!

Strange.

The viola's strings (lowest-to-highest) are C, G, D, and A. The viola's G, D, and A strings (the top three) are the same pitches as the violin's G, D, and A strings (the bottom three). In other words, the viola is tuned a perfect fifth lower than a violin.

lol okay thanks people, I was wondering about the insufficent curvation too, cuz it doesn't seem like its any more curved than a 4 string...

Let's see: If the bridge is insufficiently curved it becomes difficult to bow individual strings. What if the bow is too curved? In that case I suppose it might be difficult to avoid bowing the body of the instrument. There may not be much room to maneuver here--between scylla and charydis, a rock and a whirlpool.

Sorry that's charybdis.