muttley600
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It might have been... Is there anything else inside the violin that can rattle around?? (Honest question)
All bowed stringed instruments like the violin family or the viola da gamba have a sound post. It's quite simply a dowel that is wedged between the top and back seated just behind the bridge on the treble side. It's purpose is two fold. To stop the top from collapsing and to couple the top and back and it makes a HUGE difference to the sound. The bass side has a bass bar than is glued to the top under the bridge foot along the length of the top. Both are a precise and exact fit and an essential part of violin set up.
The soundpost is not glued and on a neglected instrument it will come loose. I wasn't suggesting thats what you had (well I was but only in jest) but I have often had calls from mums or dads that little johnny has broken his fiddle when it's just the soundpost come adrift.
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