Yeah I followed Takei for a bit until I caught onto his hypocritical bullshit . The dude will openly lie about things and parrot talking points that are demonstrably false just to push a regressive agenda . <| sep |> yes ? tentatively . the heaviest string goes on the far left , and then the gauge get finer as you go right . it goes LEFT G , D , A , E RIGHT . those are fine tuners on the bottom that you appear to have on correctly , but those are some weird looking things on the D and G strings and idk if they ' re on right . if it were me I ' d remove those until you get some ball end fine tuners that match the ones to the right . fine tuners aren ' t really all that necessary for the lower strings anyway . make sure the strings are on the right tuning pegs as well . the bridge needs to be perpendicular to the body as well , otherwise it can collapse . if this fiddle hasn ' t been played for awhile you should probably peek inside to ensure the sound post is propped up as well . it should be round about right below the E string underneath the bridge foot .