Scan 34
Right hand culture, for violin, viola, and cello players, 1917
28 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1"I may, indeed, congratulate you with the book Right Hand Culture which shows the painstaking effort you have taken in analysing the technic of holding the bow. Wishing you success,"
2[Signed] Jascha Heifetz
4"Right Hand Culture interests me very much, and in my opinion expresses concisely and clearly the problems connected with Right Hand Exercises for the Violin."
5[Signed] Fritz Kreisler
7"Right Hand Culture is a great help for the violin student in every way, and should meet with the success it deserves."
8[Signed] Efrem Zimbalist
10"Right Hand Culture is so clear, so well-reasoned, and so evidently the outcome of valuable, practical experience that it should find many friends, as it deserves. I will indeed be glad to recommend it wherever I can, since it is a book that justifies all the good that may be said of it."
11[Signed] Frederick H. Martens
13"I am sure the course of finger-work outlined in Right Hand Culture will prove to be of the greatest benefit to those who persevere in its practice."
14[Signed] H. C. MacDougall
16"I find Right Hand Culture to contain much that is excellent, notably in compelling intense concentration and strengthening the will-power—the real secret of achievement."
17[Signed] Arthur Hartmann
19"Right Hand Culture is a most interesting and valuable contribution to the pedagogical literature of the violin. May it find well-deserved success."
20[Signed] Eugene Gruenberg
22"I consider Right Hand Culture a highly interesting and valuable contribution to the instructive literature of the violin."
23[Signed] Luigi von Kunitz
25"Studies for the right hand, which are scattered throughout the literature of the violin, are in this volume crystallized into a practical and complete system.
26"The little book throws a new light upon the development of the right hand, and opens a new and valuable field of work."
27[Signed] Anton Witek
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