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The Care and Keeping of Your Hands: a Fiddler's Guide to Fingertip Maintenance

The Care and Keeping of Your Hands: a Fiddler's...

We often discuss the loftier aspects of musicianship, but today we’re getting into the nitty gritty: how should you care for your fingertips, and nails? These simple things can make...

The Care and Keeping of Your Hands: a Fiddler's...

We often discuss the loftier aspects of musicianship, but today we’re getting into the nitty gritty: how should you care for your fingertips, and nails? These simple things can make...

Camille Arnold-Mages - 16 Years Old - Boston, MA

Camille Arnold-Mages - 16 Years Old - Boston, MA

I started playing the violin with the Suzuki method when I was 6 years old. When I was 10, I had joined a local youth orchestra, but I was always...

Camille Arnold-Mages - 16 Years Old - Boston, MA

I started playing the violin with the Suzuki method when I was 6 years old. When I was 10, I had joined a local youth orchestra, but I was always...

How To Let Go of Left Hand Tension

How To Let Go of Left Hand Tension

Practicing fiddle is like stretching your muscles: it lets you notice areas that need attention and give them extra care until you notice improvement. For many people, the area that...

How To Let Go of Left Hand Tension

Practicing fiddle is like stretching your muscles: it lets you notice areas that need attention and give them extra care until you notice improvement. For many people, the area that...

Six Ways to Energize Your Playing from Home

Six Ways to Energize Your Playing from Home

Let me guess: you’re reading this from home.  Hopefully, you’re also wearing your favorite pair of slippers and sipping a good cup of something. But even if you’re happy to...

Six Ways to Energize Your Playing from Home

Let me guess: you’re reading this from home.  Hopefully, you’re also wearing your favorite pair of slippers and sipping a good cup of something. But even if you’re happy to...

Chance Happenings: How Fiddle Found Me

Chance Happenings: How Fiddle Found Me

You know the little forks in the road that completely change the course your life? Crossroad moments that, if they hadn’t happened the way they did, would have left you...

Chance Happenings: How Fiddle Found Me

You know the little forks in the road that completely change the course your life? Crossroad moments that, if they hadn’t happened the way they did, would have left you...

Takin' My Baby Along: Reflections on Music and My Life as a Fiddler

Takin' My Baby Along: Reflections on Music and ...

Written by Katie Glassman, Edited by Adam Kulakow Not long after I started playing in 1988, people called me a fiddler. And I liked that. In fact, it became the...

Takin' My Baby Along: Reflections on Music and ...

Written by Katie Glassman, Edited by Adam Kulakow Not long after I started playing in 1988, people called me a fiddler. And I liked that. In fact, it became the...