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Adding to the literature and materials of string players in the 21st century. Demystifying the study of string playing, and bringing to thousands of players around the world a level of help and training that had previously been the privilege of only the few. "Simon Fischer is a thoroughly accomplished violinist, a wonderful musician." Vladimir Ashkenazy |
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TONE: Experimenting with proportions on the viola - the alto clef edition of the violin Tone book - has been sent to the printers and will be available soon. New on YouTube! Simon Fischer playing his own transcriptions: Chopin Grande Valse Brillante Click here to watch Strauss Voices of Spring Click here to watch Purcell Chacony Click here to watch Rossini Overture to the Barber of Seville Click here to watch Dowland Lachrimae Click here to watch Mendelssohn Andante Click here to watch MusicGurus The Secrets of Tone Production on All Bowed String Instruments is now also available via streaming from MusicGurus Review of Double Stops in The Strad magazine, January 2017. Please click here to read. Part of a recent letter to Simon Fischer I once again express my eternal gratitude to you for the tone production work you recommended. It's like I have been playing in black and white my whole life, and there are now suddenly colours everywhere to be discovered. The explosion of possibilities I'm experiencing is almost overwhelming - a similar feeling to when I got my new violin (which is a very fine old Italian), and perhaps even more so. It will take months and maybe even years for me to master all the new-found colours of the instrument, and I am looking forward to every minute of it. It is with some regret now that I seem to have played the violin for more than twenty years with almost no awareness of contact point and the different tonal qualities of each one, and I think in the process of all of that, I had stopped listening! |
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