Crawling vs Shifting

A technique in fiddling and baroque violin

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There’s an easy way to reach higher notes on the violin, a technique I’ve seen it commonly used by fiddlers of older generations (and I’m getting to the age where most of those folks are gone). But it was also common for baroque v…