Where to find strings and accessories online

In Switzerland: Musicordes / Websaiten

In Germany:: Paganino

To compare the different brands and choose your strings, I recommend these articles in French, German or English.

Where to rent / buy a violin

At a violin maker's! I don't advise you to go on the internet. Here are some violin makers in Basel and Riehen:

Geigenbau Senn at Barfüsserplatz

Christoph Johannes Ganter in Riehen

Where to find free sheet music

The International Music Score Library Project is the largest free resource on the Internet. Most of it consists of scans of royalty-free manuscripts and sheet music from more than 70 years ago.

In addition to its free score-writing software, Musescore offers an entire library of user contributions. The quality is variable, but there is much more current music.

The library of the Musik-Akademie Basel is very rich and openly accessible, with photocopiers to take along your favourite score.