Do violins "warm up"?
It`s like I start playing, and then after a few minutes the violin sounds more resonant. I`ve tried playing on another violin and then start playing on the seem-to-be-more-resonant-after-a-few-minutes violin, and I can still hear a difference. Maybe it`s my ears? Maybe it`s rosin melting? What do you think?

Hi Harvey,

It`s normal.

Liz

I agree. My theory is that it`s not so much your violin warming up, but your fingers. Like you warm up your muscles before you play a sport.

The "warming up" sound is caused by your bowing. When you begin playing, your ears tell you how well the violin sounds and as you play more, the bowing adapts to the violin`s particular resonance. When you change violin, the bowing is even slightly different to produce what your ears tell you, is a good resonant sound. All of this depends on the "scratchiness" of the strings, the weight of the bow and quality of the bow hair, not forgetting the violin itself.

Jay

Jay is right again. But most importantly, The instrument itself does `open up`. That`s why u must bow full open bow as frequently as poosible when u just got a new instrument. So, a simple full bow, open string ex. is a pretty gd warmup. For u and yr instrument.