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Congratulacions Great Susanne , you are really GREAT Teacher

Would you send me a kiss in your next video ?, thank you !

I would be honoured if ever you should need your soundpost reset, I am able with yarn or dental floss to reset post without scaring up f holes. You and I both have short fourth finger. I am not really able to read music so I improvise and mimmic what I hear. I am self taught with my lutier skills only from fourth grade and by watching you tube vidios. I have what is known as slow hand. My forth grade violin teacher told my mother I did not have fast twitch muscles that were necessary to become a concert violinist. I was enraged. But did not act out. I calmly went about learning as best I could until in sixth grade I was told my violin had a glue crack. My instrument was a Sears copy of a Cremona of 1720 by Antonio Stradivari. My grandfather had crated up and sent to me to learn on after my cousin was through with it. Thank you for your delightful rendition of Paganini Caprice #1. I am studying vibrato now for last three summers. I spent 40 years away from the violin because I didn't know how to tune it. I know that sounds strange because they usually teach beginning violin students something about tuning. I was not confident in my tuning skills and couldn't read music so I gave up. After I graduated hischool I picked it up again and rehaired my bow. My violin now had more power and tone so I became interested In it again. Then I saw a documentary on the violin called The Great Violin Mystery on PBS and was hooked. I trim my own bridge blanks from Davide Soras vidios on the subject. I feel he is a master craftsman so I study his technique and copy what he does to my bridge blanks. I also incorporate some unorthodox techniques which involve drilling the bridge. I have ruined many bridge blanks over the years not knowing what I was doing. I still make occasional errors but I am much more confident I am understanding what I am doing and reasons why one must measure the various dimensions in millimeters for accuracy! WELL that's all for now. I am looking forward to more of your vidios, bye for now.😅

Lucky, i have long fingers and my dad jeopardize my violin learning. You are blessed.

very beautiful..

Did they tell you the maker of your favorite violin you wanted to buy?

Bravo!!!! Spectacular and jaw dropping performance are the first words coming to mind. The legendary rock guitarist Steve Vai said that technique should not be in the way of expression. Having a piano background, I can only appreciate bits and pieces of what your playing. Having a very small pinky makes playing this piece an unbelievable achievement which defies the laws of physics. I knew that Paganini's music is for serious virtuoso level violinists, yet, your playing of this (considered most solo violin piece) is so clear, crisp and fast. I began watching your videos because of my 11 year old daughter, living Mississauga. When she told me that you are a professional violinist and that you are playing Paganini's music, right away I said, "she plays Paganini???", I need to watch this and I was blown away, even though It was the first time I heard solo violin. I heard Anne-Sophie Mutter leading a chamber orchestra, playing "The Four Seasons" by Vivaldi. Anything else I heard involving violin is chamber music and piano concertos with orchestras when listening to my favorite pianist (best alive and of all time) Martha Argerich. I like your videos where you mention that hand positioning is very important. Hand positing is very important when playing piano to avoid injuries like tendonitis. I tell people who play piano that whenever hand hurts, to stop for moment as something is wrong with the positioning of the hands. Fear of hitting notes between black ones is a major reason for bad hand positioning (dangerous wrist movements) and the price to pay for pounding on a keyboard with unnatural hands position is very high. I like your playing so much that I wish you would upload the 24 caprices, maybe asking for too much though. I will listen to everything you uploaded, especially all the other caprices you uploaded as well as the Saint-Saens concerto, butterfly lovers, which may be related to the movie of the same title (which sounds I think sounds like Leung Shan Pak) in Cantonese, the first I watched in Cantonese (with subtitles), the movie that made me watch more Chinese movies, and movies from other countries as well, for the simple reason that watching a movie that doesn't a happy ending is refreshing. Back to your performance of this piece, a big Bravo!!!!!!

I have tiny hands too. Did you get anything special done to your violin to help? The music is amazing! 🙏🎉

Do you play a full size Violin? Or do you use a 7/8? My pinky is exactly 6 cms (I have tiny hands for a man) and I struggle with fourth Finger extensions and augmented seconds ( with 3rd & 4th Fingers). Placing the left thumb more under the neck of the violin really helps small hands reach big stretches. 4:25 I do place it the same way

Don’t think your pinky is small. It’s just perfect.

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I love all the study video you made for paganini caprice , i wish you would also make video about fundamental for small hands violinist as well , specifically maximizing handframe . although it is so valuable to the point i cant be asking for free

Very interested

Thanks for the tutorial

Thank you so much

Love your videos. You are a fantastic communicator

Great Violinist. Great Teacher.

Great inspiration. love to hear and watch more from you and your performance ❤

You're a great inspiration! Thank you!

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Hi, I was wondering if you play a full sized violin? Thanks for the video!

Hi from Brazil🇧🇷 Your parents are a 10😊🙌 My pinky is as short as yours, and what size is your violin? Is it 4/4?

What are your suggestions for someone who has short fingers/short arm all around? My fingers measure: index: 58mm, middle 68mm, ring 58mm, pinky 47mm and my arm from my neck to the middle of my palm is 23". I've been told by some university professors that maybe violin wasn't the right choice for me or to give up on learning a piece because "it just wasn't going to happen"...

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Do you give online class? Maybe? Please let me to know

You have a good violin, powerful and responsive. My pinky is 58 mm. Not the longest neither, which is sometimes troublesome.

Extraordinary velocity! Never heard it played faster with all notes present. Bravo Ms. Hou!

Great inspiring help here Susanne, thank you. I am an adult student in Ireland. I do finger exercises every day. Am heading into more demanding pieces so I will be using all your instruction angles as much as I can. I find your playing of Caprice No. 2 to be the absolutely captivating! It transports me elsewhere! What a blessing RUclips can be. (I have 5 short fingers! Have just invested in a 7/8 size violin - big relief! It really helps me). Fond regards, Georgina. Ireland 🤗

As an adult male my pinky is just barely 6cm long and I wonder if that's the reason I struggle so much on the pinky in violin playing but may be it's just lack of practice..

ooo this is going to make revisiting this so much fun. thank you

What a monumental performance of an incredibly difficult work. One can see that Ms. Hou got her 40 hours of daily practice in. The violin really is a torturous instrument. Even with her small hands, she mastered the instrument, and how! 10/17/22, Burlington ON Canada.

Amazing your channel, your videos and the solution for your small pinky finger 🤘. Let me to know if you give online class regards from Ecuador... ruclips.net/video/e6o1X8Fl9gY/видео.html

How wonderful it is of you to give back to the violin community what you've learned from your professors and mentors. Having a small pinky finger is definitely a challenge for many small-handed people, but you are showing them how to overcome this problem. So, you wouldn't have been accepted at the Shanghai Conservatory because of your small pinky! Well, it's Canada's and the world's gain! You are an amazing teacher, besides being a fantastic violinist.

Hi thanks for making this video specifically for violin players with small hands. Thank you for encouraging us not to stop playing. Before watching your videos, I was a bit discouraged because I thought that I won't be able to reach most of the notes even with practice. But watching your video gave me the much needed encouragement to go on. If I may ask, what is your height? Thanks again!

Ugh violin is such a tortuous instrument. I play piano and violin and piano doesn't beat up my hands the way violin does. I'm not sure why I stick with it.

I refuse to play certain passages in violin where the composer expects me to be a contortionist octopus or something

Thank you and bless you! Your help and generosity is a true gift to those of us who are struggling on our own.

Thank you so much for this video! My pinky is short and as a beginner I’m worried about being able to play high positions on the violin.

also noticed you didn't use a Kun type of shoulder rest, just a foam one. Was that to compensate for your pinky?

I have a very small pinky but also a very small thumb too so I can’t even swing my hand high enough over the fingerboard. Very annoying!! Otherwise, I’m a regular sized woman so I can’t justify playing a smaller violin.

beautiful Susanne - great to see you around after all these years - RedBull/Skiz

SUUUPERB! Absolutely superb Susanne! Totally exciting to watch and listen. A privilege... thank you. xxG Ireland (adult learner with small hands)

No chin rest nor shouldee rest? Wow!

Wow i love your channel reason is quite simple - my pinky measures 4.5cm, same size as my 11 yr old boy who plays a half size violin! I am 5 feet tall. My guess is you play a full size violin, right? Was on a full size before but injured my pinky twice from playing on it. I currently play a 7/8 but unable to reach the 4th finger position. Thinking of dropping to a 3/4. But seeing your video makes me feel like there is still hope. Will try your way before doing the switch!

i cant play thirds that fast. Prolly quarter note 80-90

I can’t tell you enough how much this video gave me hope, strength and inspiration🙏🏻 I have hands and fingers very similar to yours in size and shape (my pinky is double jointed as well). No matter how much I do practice, do specific exercises and try various positions I cant always reach my pinky far enough. Because of that I also started to have a very sharp pain at the base knuckle of my index finger that prevents me from practicing. No matter how much pain I have, I have no intention to give up violin. I know every hand shape is different and there is no “one size fits all” solution for this, but as a real professional and with your experience 1st hand, PLEASE share a video about what exercises, positions etc. worked for your hand shape and size. At least us who have very similar hands can benefit from that tremendously🙏🏻❤️ (ps. Is your violin a 4/4 or a 7/8?)

Very clearly explained. Fascinating!

Fabulous!