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Opinion: Adjusting instrument necks for teenage players’ growing hands

2024-01-15T08:05:00

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Bow maker Bernd Müsing believes that widening violin and viola necks could help young players, especially teenage boys, who find that there is no longer enough space between the strings for their growing fingertips

Can you imagine a world where all clothes and shoes are made in one size only? Where all bicycles have the same frame size? A world in which one kind of shoulder rest and one kind of chin rest must do for all violin and viola players, ignoring their different shapes and builds?..

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