What Size are You?
Measuring for Your First Violin
Measuring for Your First Violin
Violins comes in 9 different sizes:
4/4 (also
called full size), 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/10, 1/16, and 1/32.
4/4 size being the
biggest and 1/32 size being the smallest.
All adults, regardless of their size,
use the 4/4 violin.
To measure what size violin best suits you, you
need to know the length between your neck and the middle of your left-hand palm
or left wrist. This is measured when your hand is fully extended and raised perpendicular to your body, just
like holding a violin.
About 50% of the teachers prefer students to use the
length from the neck to the wrist for measurement instead of the neck to
mid-palm approach. The violin size determined by the neck/wrist approach would
be the size that is more comfortable for students to hold. The violin size
determined by the neck/mid-palm approach would be the biggest size students
should use. When your child is right in between two sizes using the two
different measuring methods, you should also consider that kids do go through
growth phases and may outgrow a size in 6 months. In that case, you may
want to choose the larger size.
This is From: http://store.musicbasics.com/howtodetrigs.html
and
http://www.squidoo.com/beautiful-inexpensive-violin-for-beginners?utm_source=google&utm_medium=imgres&utm_campaign=framebuster
Another way to determine what size violin is by their age, this method isn't as accurate because all children grow differently but in general seems to work.
VIOLIN SIZE APPROX. AGE
1/16 3-5 years
1/10 3-5 Years
1/8 3-5 Years
1/4 4-7 Years
1/2 6-10 Years
3/4 9-11 Years
4/4 (Full Size) 9- ADULT
If you are still confused on what size violin your child is, feel free to ask me questions or watch this YOUTUBE video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_MXpJGXHWU
