"Sorry, but it's down there with laying the neck of the instrument along your palm." Which is what almost all of the fiddlers I most admire do - and they haven't damaged their wrists. We're talking fiddling. I play the fiddle, but do not feel any great moral obligation to listen to, let alone take up, Classical violining. Personally, I don't give a damn if I "never exploit the most wonderful instrument there is to its full potential". We all make our choices about what we will do with our time and our lives. Sorry.