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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 10

by Steve Maus

In Part 3 of our series about the vibrato I posted some photos how the fingers should look like during the vibrato. Recently I was asked about pictures of the third and fourth finger because some modifications might be required when it comes to geometry. Let’s start with the third finger. Here we see the [...]

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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 4

by Steve Maus

In Part 3 of our series about the vibrato we mainly talked about the arm vibrato. Today we’ll have a deeper look into the hand vibrato. I’m asked frequently which version is better. This cannot be answered generally. It depends on our personal preferences and, above all, which version we have learned first. We tend [...]

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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 3

by Steve Maus

As we have seen here we have to be sure that our finger remains in position during the vibrato movements. The finger must not leave its position as it is the case during shifts. But nevertheless we have to oscillate our tone. The solution is pretty easy: We let the finger roll on its tip, [...]

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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 2

by Steve Maus

Before we start exploring the vibrato and it’s technical aspects we have to look at some terms that are used to describe certain vibrato techniques. Dealing with waves we stumble upon three main physical terms: Frequency, wave length and amplitude. The frequency of a tone is directly related to the tone pitch. The higher the [...]

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