A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
each other in these three degrees of adagio, andante, and presto; and, in practise, you have great occasion for these different kinds of shakes ; for the same shake will not serve with equal propriety for a slow movement as for a quick one. To acquire both at once with the same trouble, begin with an open string—either the first or second, it will be equally useful: sustain the note in a swell, and begin the shake very slowly, increasing in quickness by insensible degrees, till it becomes rapid. You must not vigorously move immediately from semiquavers to demi-semiquavers, or from these to the next in degree ; that would be doubling the velocity of the shake all at once, which would be a skip, not a gradation ; but you can imagine, between a semiquaver and a demisemiquaver, intermediate degrees of rapidity, quicker than the one and slower than the other of these characters. You are, therefore, to increase in velocity, by the same degrees, in practising the shake, as in loudness, when you make a swell.
You must attentively and assiduously persevere in the practise of this embellishment, and begin at first with an open string, upon which, if you are once able to make a good shake with the first finger, you will, with the greater facility, acquire one with the second, the third, and the fourth or little finger, with which you must practise in a particular manner, as more feeble than the rest of its brethren.
I shall at present propose no other studies to your application : what I have already said is more than sufficient, if your zeal is equal to my wishes for your improvement. I
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