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How to Clean a Violin's Finger Marker

While violins might seem like pristine, immaculate, graceful instruments, they can still accumulate their share of dust, grease, rosin marks, smudges and dirt. If you're using finger markers to guide you on the correct placement of your fingers along the strings of the violin, those markers can become sticky with rosin over time and even cause your strings to produce a more raucous sound. While you would use polish to clean the wooden parts of the varnished violin, you use an altogether different tactic for the finger markers.

Things You'll Need

  • Soft, lint-free cloth
  • Cotton ball
  • Rubbing alcohol
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Instructions

    • 1

      Take a clean, lint free soft cloth and slide it underneath the strings along the fingerboard. Gently rub the string back and forth with the cloth and rub the cloth against the finger markers on the finger board. Do this daily after you are done playing for the day.

    • 2

      Moisten a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol. Rub the cotton ball up and down the fingerboard, wiping the grease, smudges and rosin from the strings, finger board and finger markers. Your cotton ball will get quite dirty so throw it away after wiping down this area once and repeat with a fresh cotton ball. Do this once a week or once every two weeks.

    • 3

      Allow the fingerboard to air dry for around 15 minutes.

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