On Jan 20, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 20.01.2007 Andrew Stiller wrote:
That picture doesn't show K's wrist, which he held sharply bent, not
straight as in the normal playing posture.
Inwards or outwards?
Inwards. To facilitate (I suppose) the RH fingers reaching down to the
strings w.o inadvertent double-stopping. I realize that w. a restrung
instrument, that contortion shouldn't be necessary, and it makes me
wonder if he at first learned to play that way on an ordinarily-strung
instrument, then kept up the habit when using restrung ones. I can see
how that might happen, given the costly interior surgery restringing
requires, and that a young beginner might not be able to afford.
A personal analogy: on the clarinet, I tongue all notes not directly on
the reed, but through my lower lip (it drove some of my teachers wild).
I do this because, way back when I was seven, tonguing the reed tickled
my tongue. I get a perfectly good attack thru the lip, so I've never
had the motivation to change. I imagine some similar phenomenon might
have been at work in K's case.
--Andrew
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