What happens if a violin gets wet

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Corilon Violins. Los Angeles Philharmonic. Laurie's Books Discover the best of Violinist. Never use solvents or hot water to clean the violin! These liquids will damage the varnish. Strings gradually lose their tonal quality and need to be changed every months for optimum sound and performance. Add milk and sugar, and I'd try to remove those with a damp or wet cloth carefully through the F-holes.

Then dry naturally - not on a heat source. Maybe the question is not what should I do, but what should I do in the future?

Keep it in its case, and certainly away from anything likely to get spilled! And children If your "beginner violin" starts to get smelly, or you can see mould growing inside it, the cheapest option would probably be to just throw it away and buy another one. You can keep all the removable parts like tuning pegs, strings, tailpiece, etc as spares, if the coffee missed them! It's not worth the cost of getting a very cheap instrument cleaned professionally, and trying to do it yourself isn't likely to be a success.

It will still be playable, but I'd leave it out to dry. Be careful poking around in there, or you could knock down the soundpost, which you'd have a pay a bit to get reset. You know to never take all the strings off at one time? I don't think one accidental spill will do any great deal of damage, so long as you let it dry out as much as possible.

Aka I can't see it warping and splitting. Again, you just have to hope there's no mold that develops from sugars ect. I know with electronics they say to leave it in rice, but with a violin, I'm not so sure I'd recommend that.