Month: November 2020

Fine Tuners, and direct concert/workshop signup

New to fiddle-online?  Click “Continue reading –>” and scroll down to learn more about an easy way to sign up for your first guest online concert/workshop!

First, let’s talk a bit about fine tuners.  Nearly everyone uses fine tuners, the little knobs on the tailpiece of the violin that you turn to slightly tune up or down.

Some plastic tuners come with tuners on every string while some players use one only on the E string. Why is this?

The strings exert upwards of 40 lbs per square inch of pressure on the bridge and the upper plate of the violin, and much of this comes from the E string. Usually made of steel, the E is the tightest string, and is the most difficult one to tune by peg. It also doesn’t go out of tune much. For these reasons, most people like to use the fine tuner for this string.

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Password Tips

We are cybercreatures who have learned to protect our electronic space the same as we lock our houses or cars or bikes.  We remember or write down our passwords, and make them weird enough not to be guessed by a robot.  Sometimes we even gratuitously change them in order to foil the secret police.

Your password on fiddle-online is easily changed by you, and you should know it is securely hashed, meaning that the site tears it apart and processes it into an unrecognizable, long string of characters that cannot be reconstructed by any computer because bits of the original have been removed.  When you log in, your password is torn apart the same way so the system can compare and match up the remaining debris!  On my end, by the way, your password is blank, so I can’t see it either, but I have an “autologin” feature that, if necessary, allows me to send you a temporary code that will log you in automatically (though I still can’t see it).

Lose your password?  It happens.  Just click the red Log In button as usual but then click “forgot password” — here’s what happens.  You’ll be sent an email with a new password.  If you don’t see this email, check your spam folder, and if it’s there, be sure to unspam it so that future emails from fiddle-online can get to you.  Very important — click the activate button in the email, and use that password to log in.  Do not click “forgot password” more than once — you can’t mix and match passwords if you get more than one email with a new password.

Want to change your password?  Log in to your home page, or click the green “My homepage” button at the top left of most pages.  From there, click on “My Accounts/Credits” at the top right corner of your home page.  This takes you to the page where you usually purchase credits, but check out the blue box at right, where it shows your available credits.  Underneath your username is a blue link marked “Change password, username, or email.”  It should be self-explanatory from there.

©2020 Ed Pearlman