Fixing a 14" (Primavera) viola
This is one on my free of charge repair list for Nottingham Music Hub today. The patient is an instrument owned by a pupil. They dropped it and the table (face) cracked from the saddle right up to the f-hole. It is a 14 inch viola, which means it is the same length as a full size( 4/4) violin. This size of viola is most usually a children's size. That said,a 14 inch viola is also commonly employed for violinists learning to play viola. The sound post was clearly extremely badly fitted - at an angle and not at all in the right location on the treble side of the bridge foot. Badly fitted sound post. Not perfectly vertical. The cross on the image below shows where the sound post was located. The a large dot where it should be located. Sound post badly located. Too far in. Moreover, when examined the "sound post" looks like it was some bit of left over scrap wood stick picked up off the ground with no regard to the fact a squirrel, mouse or chinchilla had been gnawing on