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Opinion: Duets as a teaching tool

2025-10-31T09:46:00

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Cellist and teacher Naomi Yandell outlines the reasons why duet playing is an essential tool in one-to-one instrumental teaching

During the pandemic, a colleague and I were so frustrated by the lack of face-to-face contact with our students that we were inspired to write a series of duet books for the time when things got back to normal. Since then, I have increasingly valued teaching and playing duets in my lessons…

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