PerlmanHands

My hands are rather big for a violinist so my big, fat fingers have to struggle the further I move up the instrument'

Itzhak Perlman talks about how hand size relates to technical challenges on the violin and demonstrates by performing sections of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto Finale.

Watch Itzhak Perlman talking about practising.

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