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Spiccato or Sautillé?
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Gordon Shumway
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My étude compendium book lists this as a spiccato exercise, but I'm pretty sure it's more towards sautillé. What do you think? Do the two techniques merge? Galamian on p75 implies they might.

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@Gordon Shumway -

Looks/sounds like sautillé, to me. 

 

It's my understanding that 'sautillé' is always fast, played in the middle of the bow, uses the bounce of the bow, BUT the hair never leaves the string - uses the 2nd & 3rd fingers of the bow hand. 

I believe 'spiccato' is either slow, played near the frog, uses 1st & 3rd fingers of the bow hand - lifting the hair off the string.  Or, at a more medium speed towards the middle of the bow, utilizing the natural bounce of the bow.  For both slow & medium speed 'spiccato' - the bow hair leaves the string. 

 

If you are thinking 'sautillé' is just fast 'spiccato', I believe it's more a case of 'on string' vs 'off string'

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Nathan Cole suggests that, as spiccato increases in speed, it becomes sautillé when the bounce becomes small enough. The hair stops leaving the string, but the stick is still bouncing and the technique is essentially the same.

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