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Summary: Learn how to hold the fiddle as a beginning fiddle player with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip for beginners.

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David Kaynor David Kaynor has over 30 years of fiddle playing experience. He currently teaches and plays the fiddle in the Connecticut River Valley. He can be often found ... read more

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How to Hold the Fiddle for Beginners

Hi! I’m David Kaynor for expertvillage.com. I’m going to discuss options for holding the violin. Probably the most standard way of holding the violin is hold it in the kind of position the classical player would use, with the shoulder rest or the violin itself resting on the shoulder and the chin and the shoulder combining to hold the violin in a relatively stabled position. Then the left hand is used mainly to press down strings, and only secondarily to add some added support instability to the instrument. And I’m going to play a tune in this position…

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