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Chats to violin students on how to study the violin, 1895
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 14. See the scan on archive.org.
1CHAPTER IV.
3Of Scales and their Importance.
5HAVING determined to devote a reasonable amount of time—as much, of course, as can possibly be spared—to the study of the violin, the next thing to do is to save as much time as possible by practising methodically and with intelligence. I will endeavour to lay down a few leading suggestions. With regard to scales it is desirable to practise them slowly and very correctly. I advocate learning them in chromatic progression. The fingering should be carefully followed from some standard instruction book, and I cannot recommend any better than those fingered and edited by my son Bernhard, published by Hammond and Co.
7The scales must be practised in one octave, and then, when the difficulties attending this are fairly overcome, in two or three octaves, which will bring the higher positions into practice. Correct intonation is absolutely imperative. I append an example of a scale in one, two and three octaves with the various bowings.
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