Lesson for others starting now: For what she suffered, from just holding the instrument, there is a really simple solution -- look at some pictures and now some video clips.
That's some progress for others on some of what she suffered.
It's simple progress, part of the first lesson in violin 101, even earlier than how to tune the instrument -- a violin needs to be tuned again about each 20 minutes of playing.
Sure, the progress is only for the first lesson in violin 101 and not a single, full path to a career as a violinist. Obvious.
You are reading into my writing assertions I did not make and then beating up on me for those.
Again, yet again, over again, once again, one more time, just dirt simple and potentially quite valuable: Beginning violin students need to know how to hold the instrument. Getting this correct at the beginning is important because, as in the OP, getting it wrong can hurt the whole effort for life. But getting it correct is just dirt simple -- look at some good pictures or, now, videos of some good violinists. Simple. Dirt simple. Potentially valuable for beginning violin students. Good contribution. NOTHING WRONG.
What IS wrong is your wildly over active imaginations and extrapolations.
I'm not being critical of the author of the OP. You are being critical of me, throwing me to the sharks, for NOTHING WRONG.
And for "Carpel tunnel and tendonitis" the situation in the OP seems to be related to problems holding the violin and more generally -- understand that if something hurts, then don't do that. It's not supposed to hurt.
There was an old newspaper story about why Heifetz retired from giving concerts. The remark was "Only two things go wrong with a violinist, their bow arm and their nerves. I can assure you there is nothing wrong with Heifetz's bow arm." Net, violin just ain't NFL football -- it ain't supposed to hurt, not even after decades.
Lesson for others starting now: For what she suffered, from just holding the instrument, there is a really simple solution -- look at some pictures and now some video clips.
That's some progress for others on some of what she suffered.
It's simple progress, part of the first lesson in violin 101, even earlier than how to tune the instrument -- a violin needs to be tuned again about each 20 minutes of playing.
Sure, the progress is only for the first lesson in violin 101 and not a single, full path to a career as a violinist. Obvious.
You are reading into my writing assertions I did not make and then beating up on me for those.
Again, yet again, over again, once again, one more time, just dirt simple and potentially quite valuable: Beginning violin students need to know how to hold the instrument. Getting this correct at the beginning is important because, as in the OP, getting it wrong can hurt the whole effort for life. But getting it correct is just dirt simple -- look at some good pictures or, now, videos of some good violinists. Simple. Dirt simple. Potentially valuable for beginning violin students. Good contribution. NOTHING WRONG.
What IS wrong is your wildly over active imaginations and extrapolations.
I'm not being critical of the author of the OP. You are being critical of me, throwing me to the sharks, for NOTHING WRONG.
And for "Carpel tunnel and tendonitis" the situation in the OP seems to be related to problems holding the violin and more generally -- understand that if something hurts, then don't do that. It's not supposed to hurt.
There was an old newspaper story about why Heifetz retired from giving concerts. The remark was "Only two things go wrong with a violinist, their bow arm and their nerves. I can assure you there is nothing wrong with Heifetz's bow arm." Net, violin just ain't NFL football -- it ain't supposed to hurt, not even after decades.