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For sound wooden mute is best obviously.

For convenience in chamber music or orchestra when you have very little time to put on and take off mute rubber mute that slides on and off is best. One ho ...

....I saw an exercise in that Soviet book by Yankilevich, he recommends development of staccato to be done by starting with just one note on an open string, then 2 notes followed by a break of a secon ...

Very complex question. I can make the following observations:

1- Right hand techniques respond to slow practice same as left hand passage work does.
Many people make a mistake thinking that one ...

ok, thanks for the clarification- ill have to force myself to get used to it Sad

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It's actually rather natural and far easier.

Because naturally your hand would hang down if you relax it and le ...

Yes but why not tilt towards you? since when playing I've found that to be the more natural position to tilt it.

While human body can adjust to a wide variety of scenarios in this case a tilt awa ...

Nothing wrong with flat bow. But often too much hair attacking the string all at once causes harsh and flat "rude" articulation, thus the tilt (away from you) when we're in lower half.

My teacher says my elbow should move (slightly) with the string being played.

true.

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2- keep your fingers/hand more upright, as in playing double stop 3rds, where your 3rd finger on the D string would not hit the A-string at all.
This can be accomplished by moving your left elbo ...

You have 2 options, and you can use one or the other depending on the situation:

1- If you will place your 3rd finger in such a way that it hits the A string as you described then you'd HAVE TO pla ...

What I meant is that - like your violin, does the Gobetti "choke" also on the Eva Pirazzis because it has a thin deck as well?

I inquired of Bill Monical, because I was curious to find ...

Would that have been the case with the Gobetti as well?

What is Bill referring to exactly that is not known?

Hello Lemuel,

You mean would a Gobetti violin sound better with real gut s ...

Anton,

Out of curiosity, which has overall average higher string tensions - the Heifetz setup or the Eva Pirazzi's?

Do you consider your Gaetano Chiocchi, thick decked?

Medium Evah is sig ...

Along with Lemuel, I have a question for Anton too.
Anton, on a scale of one to ten, how tight do you
usually have your bow hair when performing? Thanks

7 or 8

As very common with most violin ...