Salchow Medium-Dark Rosin For Violin - Viola - Cello

I'm maybe a mid-intermediate violin player and had been using another well-regarded green rosin for a few years when my teacher (who plays with the Symphony) casually mentioned that she uses Salchow. So I ordered some to give it a try – and it is great. I'm still developing an ear but my sound has improved and staccato is now duck-simple. And it you're wondering, 1) no dust or powder to mess things up; 2) humidity and temperature for the violin are kept not too cold, not too hot, not too humid, not too dry; 3) older German violin with Dominants.

I'm partial to dark rosin and like a lot of bite when I am fiddling. I admit to using cheap, dark, sticky rosins for fiddling, however this medium-dark Salchow rosin has been my "violin-playing-go-to-rosin" for more years than I care to admit. It provides just the right amount of grip for me without much dust, build up or any white noise. I've tried many, many rosins and always come back to this one.

Am a repeat purchaser of this rosin. One might consider it the best violin rosin for kids - if your the sort who take kids' tone seriously. This is the Goldilocks Rosin - not too sticky, not too hard. We use it in 4-season midwest, never felt it was too "dark" or to "light". If you like to impart a bit of rosin snobbery to your kids, then by all means get them stuff with special particles in it, or more than one rosin to feel important as they show off all the stuff in their case to their friends. But really this rosin will produce great traction in nearly all temperatures and seems to last a really long time.

I normally use Hill Dark Green rosin for violin. We switched to this hoping that it would be roughly the same, slightly soft but never gooey or runny. Works great so far, though we haven't gone through a really hot summer yet. I would expect it to hold up as well as the Hill Dark rosin in a hot outdoor stage during a summer concert.

Nice thick block of rosin and seems to work well. But the best thing about it is when you can't remember how to re-wrap the cloth like it arrived, it turns into a game and you can waste time trying to figure it out. It needs a container instead of the gold rubber band and button thing.

I bought this for my cello and I have only one complaint, it works so well, I told my friends and now everyone wants to sample mine! Good grip, low dust, I switched from the "Olive" of another brand and happy I did so.

Really, really excellent dry-weather rosin. Probably too sticky for warm humid environments, but most string players should know this. Light rosin for summer months, dark rosin for rest of the year.Anyway, this rosin is soft enough to coat the hair without a lot of effort, gives you excellent gripping performance. All rosin will leave some dust on the instrument, which is why everybody should just wipe their instrument before putting it away.

Much better sound , and performance over the rosin I was using. Better grip and pretty much eliminated scratch sounds I would sometimes get during fast bowing(fiddle type music). I am in a warm humid climate and now that winter is over it is probably a bit soft for outside playing, but no problems in the house with the air-conditioning on.