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Good Place to buy a violin
November 11, 2014 / Violin
and the parents want to buy a good medium student violin (it’s really hard to buy here in Brazil, almost…from China and aren’t good ones). They want a violin between $700 and $1000 dollars. Do you have any suggestions…the entire outfit? Well, you mentioned not liking Chinese-made violins, but in that budget range, I’m pretty sure all…some setup work done on an old 1/2-size violin for my youngest, and they were great (and charged me… Read more
Violin Videos
January 14, 2007 / Video, Videos, Violin
Nice page with collection of violin videos: http://vegyeskar.hu/violin.hegedu.video/violin_video_home.htm Free Handouts for Music Teachers &…violins.com/library.html#handouts Thanks for posting, I’ve had…site can be very good if it has biographys of violin…nicer design but overall is vergood Nice work, mahmoud My Violin Teaching Diary fiddlepeople wow…thanks for posting This site can… Read more
2007 Minijournal Cover Winners
June 1, 2007 / Contest, Minijournal, Students
Ozwa Burns, age 9 Sunnyvale, CA Aislinn has been studying violin since age two, with Cathryn Lee. 2nd Place Eliza Block…WA Eliza has been studying piano for eight years and violin for one year. 3rd Place Julius Buonanno, age 7 Sunnyvale… Read more
Helping my almost 8 year old with violin
March 15, 2009 / Violin
some clarification. My son is almost 8 and we started violin at the local suzuki institute when he was 5.5…so this will be our 3rd year with violin. He is currently beginning work on Minuet 1. My son…and attentional issues…he has had therapy for both and violin was initially started as an extention of therapy. He has…really done well with violin in some areas…he has an extremely strong ear and… Read more
Recommendations for 4/4 Violin for mom to practice with son
June 28, 2016 / Practice, Violin
I have a four year old who started to play violin in September. His teacher has loaned me a Nagoya Suzuki…understanding of Suzuki. Anyways, it is time to give the violin back. I want to buy a cheap violin for myself…teacher is wonderful but is not familiar with cheaper brand violins. We also live in a small town so the violin…needing to be changed out in order for make cheaper violins be playable. Does anyone have a brand to recommend? I… Read more
Gripping violin with head
November 3, 2012 / Violin, Working with Students
pupil. I’m trying to stop her from gripping the violin too much with her head. She grips it so much…to swing her arms, put toy tea cups on her violin but it still happens. Any ideas how to stop this…Almost Dropped It Game.” Being allowed to almost drop a violin is usually enough to rivet their attention. The rest is…you. -1 Put your hands under, but not touching the violin to catch it in case of accidents. -2 Ask her… Read more
Going forward with violin book 2 need help
July 28, 2009 / Book 2, Violin
not have great focus or stamina. Despite all he plays violin reasonably well…he has very very strong muscle memory and…than the bare minimum and he is like this in violin too…he will play what he wants to play and…care. I finally asked him if he wants to continue violin or if he wants to stop after we finish book…honestly DS is never going to be an athlete and violin is the only extra curricular activity he really shines in… Read more
Converting a violin to a viola
August 5, 2011 / Injury Prevention, Instrument Size, Viola, Violin
How do you change a violin to a viola. My son (3 1/2) wants to…to figure out how to convert a 1/10th size violin to a viola. What size strings would we need to…can do. The most practical is to take correctly sized violin strings, and move them all over a space- take the…G spot rather than an E so the re-strung violin would have two G strings. The little Sabatier violas sound… Read more
Karibu! Suzuki Flute in Tanzania
August 1, 2007 / Africa, Flute, Tanzania, Kelly Williamson
in Arusha Kimbra Dixon is the woman behind the Suzuki violin program in Arusha, Tanzania, which now numbers 65 students in…music at the International School where a number of the violin…expand this program in the near future. Now that the violin program is off and running, and has the full support…important consideration, especially since three of the young Dixons are violin… Read more
Very frustrated, I can't seem to hold my violin right...
August 29, 2008 / Violin
My daughter (4) will be starting Suzuki violin lessons in a week or so—I have had 3…next week before she starts. I can’t get my violin hold right, however, and the teacher said she really hoped…long enough or something, I just can’t get the violin where it is supposed to be. I am overweight, so…instead of the standard one that came with the rental violin) but that doesn’t help. My jawbone just hits the… Read more
Introducing Dr. Richard K. Miller
August 1, 2007 / Honorary Board, Interview, Christie Felsing
of Music. My younger daughter, Julia, took both piano and violin lessons there from a young age, and I had the…privilege of attending violin lessons with her. She had spectacular teachers—Kimberly Meier-Sims… Read more
Frustration with left thumb on violin
April 17, 2014 / Violin
months now), and she is finishing up Etude. She plays violin. We practice a lot, so so far she was progressing…she used to love practices), and wants to give up violin. (It doesn’t help that she has a twin sister…position, gives the student a tangible way to hold the violin neck. First hold up your left hand without the violin…where the left hand would normally go to play the violin. Make a straight line from the elbow up through the… Read more
Suzuki Violin Bowing & Fingerings
July 12, 2012 / Bow, Fingering, Violin
the ‘right’ fingerlings and bowings, one must remember a professional violin…Tiffany! Great post! My only comment is that “a professional violin…a registered Suzuki teacher. Dr. Merietta Oviatt Suzuki Specialist Viola/Violin Instructor Aber Suzuki Center, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point www…composer’s intent” very much. — Dr. Rafael Videira, DMA Violist—Violin and Viola Instructor—Conductor www.RafaelVideira.com So how do… Read more
Four Points of Relaxation for Violin Playing
January 24, 2014 / Violin
which have helped my students: Four Points of Relaxation for Violin Playing… Read more
Can Every Parent?
August 11, 2017 / Articles for Parents, Communication, Parent Education, Parent-Child Relationships, Parents, Parents as Partners 2015, Practicing, Suzuki Method, Holly Blackwelder Carpenter
As a five year old, I begged my parents for violin lessons. So my mother sat me down and said, in…family, we don’t quit. If you want to take violin lessons, you have to take every week and you have…likely with a bit of relief, “ Ok, you can quit violin now.” My reply, “Are you kidding me? I just got…as a parent is that arguments are not about the violin. When your child is pushing back in the practice room… Read more
Violin teacher in Marietta Georgia?
June 13, 2011 / Teachers, Violin
Smiles! Diane Diane http://www.myviolinvideos.com Videos of student violin recitals and violin tutorials. I’d recommend Katherine Jenkins or…Smiles! Diane Diane http://www.myviolinvideos.com Videos of student violin recitals and violin tutorials… Read more
Un reacio padre Suzuki -Por Paul Davidson
August 11, 2017 / Articles for Parents, Espanol, Parent Perspectives, Parents, Practicing, Suzuki Method, Paul Davidson
n de su vida. Ella es más que una violin… Read more
Interview with Jung-Ho Pak
May 1, 2007 / Honorary Board, Interview, Jung-Ho Pak, Paul Salerni
our performances of Mahler’s Second Symphony and another with violin…the Suzuki method? Very close contact! My daughter studied Suzuki violin with three different teachers, and I am a passionate believer… Read more
CD's with violin part only for concertos?
May 30, 2008 / Violin
if any CD’s exist that have recorded only the violin parts of concertos? Do you mean the first and second…violin parts to the orchestra “by themselves”—or do you mean… Read more
Play It Again, Sam - How to Implement Listening in Home Practice
August 11, 2017 / Articles for Parents, Home, Listening, Parents, Parents as Partners 2015, Play, Practice, Suzuki Method, Jennifer Burton
with her wonderful Bach concertos. Hilary Hahn with the Mozart Violin Sonatas. Joshua Bell, anything he records is always heart rendering…He has one CD called the Romance of the Violin that is very wonderful. Andrew Manze’s Handel Violin Sonatas…my children. My oldest daughter Isabelle,7, listens to her violin and piano Suzuki repertoire books, nine books total, plus supplemental…great ear and she learns pieces very quickly, especially the violin pieces. She didn’t even need the music to learn… Read more
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