apr 1, 1677 - Prinner Johann Jakob

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"If you want to play the violin properly you must... hold the violin so firmly with your chin that there's no reason to hold it with the left hand otherwise it would be impossible to play quick passges which go high and then low or to play in tune like that unless one where to hold the violin with the right hand so that it shouldn't fall down. Nevertheless, I have known virtuosi of repute who irrespective of this put the violin only against the chest, thinking it looks nice and decorative, because they have taken it from a painting where an angel i playing to St. Francis and found it more picturesque: but they should have known that the painter was perhaps more artful with his paintbrush than he would have been with the violin bow."
tr. Charles Medlam, Early Music, vol. 7 no. 4, Oct. (1979) pp. 562-3

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