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You have just returned from Beijing. The suitcase still sits in the corner, half-unpacked. Inside, there is a dog-e···
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If you are reading this, there is a good chance you or your child is learning the violin. Or perhaps you are thinki···
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One of the most common questions at a parent evening is the one about the bigger violin: is it time? The answer is rarel···
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Most students do not have a bad ear. They have a violin intonation problem that is really a reference problem: nothing i···
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Every family that has tried to get a child to practise violin knows the same evening: the reminder, the sigh, ten minute···
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Violin rosin and bow hair are the two cheapest parts of the sound chain and the two most often neglected. The violin get···
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Sight-reading on the violin quietly decides more than it should. It decides whether a student gets the second violin cha···
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Stage fright before a violin recital is not a character flaw, and it is not something a student grows out of by being to···