Renowned violin pedagogue Shirley Givens uses the same imagery in her wonderful method book “Adventures in Violinland”, Book 1C, “Meet The Bow”, available through Shar Products. Imagine that your Bow is a Ship and the Strings are an Ocean. In big playing you can feel as an ocean-liner, heavy and deep beneath the surface, pulling your boat through the resistance of the water. In soft, intimate moments, suspend your weight and feel as a toy boat lightly floating on the surface where there is no resistance at all. –Paul Katz

Renowned violin pedagogue Shirley Givens uses the same imagery in her wonderful method book “Adventures in Violinland”, Book 1C, “Meet The Bow”, available through Shar Products. Imagine that your Bow is a Ship and the Strings are an Ocean. In big playing you can feel as an ocean-liner, heavy and deep beneath the surface, pulling your boat through the resistance of the water. In soft, intimate moments, suspend your weight and feel as a toy boat lightly floating on the surface where there is no resistance at all.