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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1and the natural varying of finger lengths. The first can be overcome by bringing the weak fingers (the third and fourth) up to the efficiency of the other two; the second, by adjustment of the hand.
3The Vibrato.—The pupil, in first trying the vibrato, will endeavor to use the whole arm and this should be avoided by relegating the vibrato entirely to the hand, at least until the pupil has acquired control over the arm. To acquire the vibrato, take each finger in the first position, or in the second or third as desired, and practise a slow exaggerated form of vibrato, making the amplitude of the movement as small as possible in order that the pitch of the note may not be altered too much. Begin this practise slowly and gradually increase the speed, taking care to see that the movement be kept even. The foundation of the whole form is a correct use of the hand independently. After the hand is freed and made independent the vibrato may make use of the entire arm, since it is impossible to get the best vibrato without doing so. This use is, however, reflex, the vibrato not being a product of the arm vibration but of hand vibration. The arm merely supplements the hand.
5LESSON IX.
7Scales and the Limits of the Fingerboard.
9So far, scales have been treated of only within the limits of the first, second and third positions, but according to an old arrangement, the violin possesses seven positions to which modern composers have added many notes above, all of which it is necessary to consider since these greatly extended limits are, at the present time, as necessary to us as the first three positions were to the old writers.
11The correct playing of scales extending through the various positions depends on two things: a correct knowledge of shifting and methodical fingering. In connection with the shifting, it is necessary to mention that the hand,
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