Take a piece of floor tile or something similarly hard and non-resonant, and put some foam as backing on it. (carpet padding will probably do and is highly scroungable) Put the fiddle on that. Less resonance, more incentive for volume. The biggest thing I know *I'm* gonna keep saying (since I've said it for years) is that the bass needs to be louder. Damp those peaks and everything else, and learn to play it LOUD!
I'll try that -- I expect that there'll still be noticeable transmission to the floor, but it should cut it down dramatically. I'm also planning to buy or make a mute so I can practice with a bow late at night without being rude to the neighbours.
I've already noticed that it seems a lot louder arco than it does pizzicato, even when I'm pulling pretty hard on the strings (though I haven't compared the bowed volume to slap-and-pop technique, only to normal plucking. One more reason for me to get competent with the bow. (And I'm thinking I should try to get ahold of a French bow to see whether it gives me more control when switching strings, before I get completely comitted to the German bow.)
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I've already noticed that it seems a lot louder arco than it does pizzicato, even when I'm pulling pretty hard on the strings (though I haven't compared the bowed volume to slap-and-pop technique, only to normal plucking. One more reason for me to get competent with the bow. (And I'm thinking I should try to get ahold of a French bow to see whether it gives me more control when switching strings, before I get completely comitted to the German bow.)