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Scan 21
Modern Violin-playing, 1920
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1nary speed of that limb. We must not be deceived by the fact that, in the vibrato, we are dealing with to-and-fro movements; and we must remember their exceeding shortness.
3In a word, a muscle may be specially adapted to produce wide movements in a limb. But that is no reason physiologically why it should not also produce small movements.
5The illustration (Fig. 3) will make the difference between the wrist-swing and the elbow-swing plain at a glance. The shorter diagram, of course, represents the wrist-swing, the longer, the elbow-swing. And the point to notice is that, though the two swinging-distances are the same when measured horizontally, the curve above is much more rounded in the wrist-swing than in the elbow-swing.
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11In other words, if the hand is swung to-and-fro from the wrist, the arc described by the knuckles is far less flat than it would be if the hand were swung from the elbow. The consequence is that while one finger is producing the vibrato, the others are being alternately raised and lowered rapidly, in vertical relation to the finger-board.
13But worse remains behind. While the fourth-finger-side of the hand is lowest, the first-finger-side is highest, and vice versa. This im-
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