All technique articles – Page 2
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Is it healthy to arch your back and raise your violin when playing up high, as top soloists often do?
Top teachers Boris Kuschnir and Mimi Zweig answer a reader's question for The Strad's Teacher Talk section
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'Teachers should adapt their methods to students' individual techniques,' says cellist Sol Gabetta
The Strad's August 2016 cover star on the importance of being adaptable as a teacher
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The importance of lateral movement in the left hand for string players
Surprisingly little has been said in the literature about the sideways left-hand movement, although any passage over more than one string uses it. Rok Klopčič researches
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How t'ai chi can help cellists
Ross Harbaugh talks through some exercises designed to develop balance and technique
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Technique - a dangerous concept for musicians
Musicians should never prioritise intellect over feeling and physicality, wrote Herbert Whone in The Strad's 1982 issue
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Szigeti as teacher: Frances Kramer
In the October 2013 issue, violinist Arnold Steinhardt recalls how he spent the summer of 1962 studying with Joseph Szigeti at his home in Switzerland. Just three years after Steinhardt's year with the great musician (pictured), violinist Frances Kramer wrote this account, published in the November 1965 edition, ...
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