“One should feel in the right arm the vibration of the bow hair on the strings. […] The moment tension or hardness enters into the hand then of course the vibrations will not be felt- they cannot penetrate.”

—  Yehudi Menuhin

On proper holding of the bow
Source: Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist, P.143

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American violinist and conductor 1916–1999

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