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Scan 41
A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
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1As the surest means of obtaining true intonation the Author most emphatically advocates the use of the open strings whenever possible, for though it may be taken for granted that a beginner will always have great trouble with the little finger, yet the elementary stage is not the right time to begin its training.
3No ear is quite perfect when the study of the violin is first undertaken, and for this reason open strings are the only guide to securing true intonation.
5The scales having been practised with separate bowing, they may next be practised slurred:—
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11With the exception of the scale or common chord of C, which distinctly lies better in the second position, and D flat which is awkward except in the third position, the scales and common chords within the compass of two octaves should be started in the first position:—
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