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Scan 39
A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 21. See the scan on archive.org.
1In the above example the third finger has ample time to be replaced on the A string. When the passage is played slowly no difficulty will be encountered in holding down the third finger, and the unevenness and awkwardness will only be noticed when playing quickly.
3It might be given as an absolute rule that no finger should be kept on the string after sounding a note, when it is followed by two others (one of them being an open string) prior to its recurrence.
5To sum up: should the third and fourth fingers be kept on the string they will prove to be distinctly in the way when the first and second fingers are again required; it may however be necessary to keep down a finger while raising others, as in the following examples:—
7DONT.
9KREUTZER.
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