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Modern Violin-playing, 1920
25 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1sideration, with the one remark that the string is of course a segment, just like the string in Fig. 14.
3The advantages of this system of bowing are many and obvious.
5(no line here) one of two readings
6The string will not be bent out of its course. The hand-pressure will be transmitted, as it should be, in the form of a firmer or looser contact between hair and strings. These results are inevitable. For the pressure is not exerted radially onto the strings as in Fig. 13. The weight of the bow does not rest on the string. But the hair, passing
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12to-and-fro along the plane of movement, just touches the string, while the sensitive hand regulates the degree of intimacy in the contact.
14There will be no tendency of the string to jump under the hair, because the plane of pressure and the plane of movement run parallel to each other.
16The amplitude of the string-vibrations is not restricted. In other words, the wave-lengths can be as big as they like, because the string is not being bent under the bow.
18Finally, the stick is under complete control. It is rather a part of the hand than an exterior mechanism guided by the hand. And the consequence of that is that there will be no unintentional bouncing.
20Our next step is to take up the bow. And when we do that, we must above all not regard it as something to be rested on the strings, and then to be squashed more or less. It is a light, strongly resilient, and delicately balanced instrument, to be wielded exquisitely by the hand, not merely to be dragged and shoved to-and-fro.
22In holding it, the two outside fingers are the most important. They serve both to hold and to balance it, while the middle fingers support the hand by contact with the stick. The thumb is placed midway between the outside fingers.
24The tip of the fourth finger and that part of the first finger which lies between the first and second joints are first placed on the stick.
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