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Scan 20
Modern Violin-playing, 1920
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1muscles of the upper-arm are liable to cramp, while those of the forearm are not? If the cramp exists, it can not be because of any inherent tendency thereto in the muscles of the upper-arm.
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7It has sometimes been claimed that the larger muscles of the body are intended to make only wide movements, and that therefore the hand-vibrato must be better than the arm-vibrato.
9Now, it is true that the muscles which move the limbs are of larger size than those, for instance, which are used to move the fingers laterally. It is also true that the extra length and power of these large muscles are specially fitted to move long limbs over a long, and therefore normally slow, course. But it does not follow that they are therefore incapable of developing high speed in the limb moved. Quite apart from this, the actual speed in inches per second which the forearm attains when performing the vibrato is no greater than the ordi-
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