POSITIONS, or Shifts. In order to reach the different parts of the fingerboard of the violin, the left hand must be moved about, or placed in various ‘positions.
’ The hand is said to be in the first position, when the thumb and 1st finger are at the extreme end of the neck of the violin, close to the nut. In this, the first position, on an instrument which is tuned in the usual way (as at No. 1), the 1st...
