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I've just joined this forum because as an adult I'd like to learn playing the violin. My expectations are modest but my intentions are serious.
Who I would really like to talk to on this forum is Pierre, the Fiddlerman himself but I doubt he will chime in (still hope hearing from him personally).
I have rather fat fingers (not the 'violin hands') just like Pierre and looking at him playing the violin I wonder how he manages to deal with double stops and in general playing an open string next to the string stopped with a finger.
My fat fingers can't 'cleanly' stop a note, say 'B' on the A string and be able to play open D and E strings because my left hand fingers (maybe except for the pinky) stopping a note like in the previous example will always touch the adjacent strings.
How does Pierre deal with that with his large hands?
I foresee again someone throwing in an example of Itzhak Perlman... NO! Wrong! - Look at his hands up close. You'll see he has rather fine fingertips in spite of his fingers having overall big and heavy appearance.
By the way, I play the normal electric guitar just fine (I've heard some people with really large heavy hands can't do even that... so sorry for them!) but still my fingers are fatter than the typical expected violin finger size.
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Hi, @SergeViner. Welcome to the forum. Before I address your post, I will be sending you a welcome email when I am done here. It will have forum information for you.
I don't think Fiddlerman has large hands. I don't see that in any of his videos.
I agree that Perlman has rather slender fingers. I have issues with the violin finger board. My hands are not huge, but I think my fingers are wide, and it seems they tend to not want to just hit the one string I want to hit. That was a major problem when I tried guitar, I ended out trying classical with the wider guitar fingerboard, but in the end I got nowhere with either.
Between my violin and 15.5 inch viola, I have better luck with my 15.5 inch viola than my violin.
Fiddlerman does visit the forum. He was here this morning. I would suggest, as will be noted in the email I send, that you introduce yourself so members get to know you. Members will be more comfortable to relate and reply to you if you introduce yourself. I also think, you will feel more comfortable about asking questions, offering input after reading the welcome messages, just a suggestion.
That said, there are a lot of tutorial videos offered by Fiddlerman. The menu bar above the main forum section is where they are located.
I will prepare your welcome email, now.
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