The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98700   Message #1964463
Posted By: Jack Campin
11-Feb-07 - 08:42 PM
Thread Name: 'Fiddle' vs 'Violin'????
Subject: RE: 'Fiddle' vs 'Violin'????
I don't buy the health benefits of chin position. I've seen one fiddler permanently disabled fom it with neck and shoulder spasms, and fiddlers who use the old-style low position always look far more relaxed.

If you don't need the higher positions - and almost all folk and early music doesn't - why change your whole technique to allow for them?