| Author |
Comment |
DannyP
Registered
User
Posts: 15
(4/2/01 9:41:54
pm)
Reply
|
pinky
I have been thinking about by bowgrip lately and I was curious to
have some input on this. When at the frog, should the pinky do
anything more than drape over the bow? Does it need to provide any
downward force to counteract the weight of the bow, or should most
of the weight be rested on the string? Thanks,
Dan Pinkham
("Pinky")
|
Gablety
Registered
User
Posts: 49
(5/19/01 11:52:19
pm)
Reply
|
I'm not
sure
My teacher says that it depends on the piece; if she's playing a
light, fast, bouncy piece where she wants the bow to bounce over the
string, she says to put yout pinky on top of the stick, so you can
get a good bouncing action. When I'm practicing, I just have my
pinky grip the stick. Since it's the shortest and smallest of the
fingers, this usually means that it's at about a right angle with
the palm of the hand if I look in a mirror; the other fingers are
curved and draped over the stick.
I think there are some good
pictures in the ICS archives, and anyway the way the fingers are
arranged on the bow is much easier to control and fix than the way
the arm is.
|
Tracie
Price 
Registered User
Posts: 508
(5/20/01 12:13:22 pm)
Reply
|
Why yes
the pinky IS a very "hand-y" digit to use to counterbalance the
weight of the bow. How much you use it, of course, would depend on
the context.
|
Parker
Garvin
Registered User
Posts: 26
(5/21/01 11:32:26 am)
Reply
|
Re: pinky
Funny, I just wrote to someone else about keeping the pinky on the
frog. My most recent teacher was a Louigi Silva/Leonard Rose prodige
and she really stressed the issue of developing the agility and
strength of the pinky for the bow. I think it helped my articulation
and my control of the sound and nuance very much. Sometimes it rests
on the frog, and sometimes I actively use it to grab the string a
little bit or give a pinch of power at the tip.
|
Internet Cello Society
Forums
Email
This To a Friend
Topic Commands (Moderator only)