Here are some tips that violin students might find useful.
Learning to play the violin
Under-the-collarbone violin playing
A few years ago I experimented with putting my baroque violin low, holding it as directed by Geminiani in his famous treatise: ‘The Violin must be rested just below the Collar-bone’. This position is fairly unusual even amongst baroque violinists. (It’s not so unusual in the folk world). I’ve since returned to a more usual semi-chin-off on-the-shoulder position, but the time I spent playing in a different way was useful, fun, and illuminating.
My violins and other instruments
I play violins, and other on-the-arm bowed stringed instruments, and I sing.