On Jan 18, 2007, at 3:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 18 Jan 2007 at 14:26, Daniel Wolf wrote:
He was also was of the few left-handed violinists. Due to injury, he
restrung his violin and switched hands. While it made orchestral
playing awkward (due to bow crossings when sharing a desk), it was
useful for both quartet playing and teaching.
Wouldn't one have to build a violin from scratch for a left-handed
player, since the bass bar and post would have to be on the opposite
side, with a different thickness profile for the whole top of the
instrument?
Absolutely. Kolisch was a famous enough violinist that he probably
could have commissioned such an instrument--but by that time he would
have been so accustomed to his own, idiosyncratic playing style that it
would have been more trouble than it was worth to switch over.
I would say that if he could play the Schoenberg concerto back-handed,
then he could play anything thus.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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