“I didn’t think about the financial implications of it.”Īfter 3 1/2 years at the Bavarian State Trade School for Violin Making, Metzler received a degree in 1976. “They told me about this school in Germany and showed me photos of them biking in the Alps with cellos strapped to their backs, and I wanted to go,” Metzler said. During a summer job with a company that imported violins, he met four or five German violin makers and found a way to realize his dream.
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In college at Iowa State University as a violin student, Metzler decided he was “not cut out” to be a professional violinist. “I guess I didn’t want to be a fireman like the other kids.” “I don’t remember the details, but I remember thinking, ‘That’s the coolest possible profession,’” Metzler said. Then in high school, Metzler read a romanticized account of the famous violin maker Antonio Stradivari and discovered his dream - to be a violin maker. He told his parents he wanted to learn violin, and proceeded to study with that same violin soloist for about 10 years. “I was just swept up in the beauty of the music and the romance of it,” Metzler said. When he was 7 or 8 years old, living in Iowa, Metzler’s parents took him to an Iowa State University concert where he was awestruck by a sequin-dress-wearing violin soloist. It has taken him from an impressionable young boy to the owner of a violin shop in Glendale. That is, of these chords,, the first is much easier than the second.The romantic draw of music has made a great impact on Tom Metzler’s life. In general, it's easy to put higher fingers on higher strings. If notes are so far apart in range, make sure you're not causing any left-hand contortions that might be far more challenging than simply plucking with two fingers.
For example, at quarter note = 60, a sequence of quarter notes would be a bit of a challenge but reasonable eighth notes would make steam rise from my head, and 16th notes might well be impossible. They would be better suited to long durations, or notes separated by rests, than rapid repeated pizzicati. It would take some mental and physical effort to prepare these multi-finger notes.If there is a very long passage of pizzicato, players often choose to hold the violin like a guitar in this case, one might pluck with the thumb as well, like guitar finger-picking technique. Using two fingers might mean some sacrifice of that ideal, big fat tone, though honestly any loss might be slight. This would also be the only approach that would let us play two notes on non-adjacent strings, something like this. So even with normal technique, loud ones would probably be near simultaneous.īut for truly simultaneous attack, I would simply use a second finger for the higher note. Pizzicato double stops on adjacent strings would normally be handled the same way. At lower dynamics, or for expressive purposes, the performer could roll the chord more noticeably. If it's in forte, and the performer chooses to, this strum can be near simultaneous. Meanwhile, pizzicato chords are done by strumming the pointer finger across the relevant strings. In passages of rapid pizzicato-like, really, anything above 16th notes at 60 bpm-one can't be quite as particular, and settles for simply "pecking" each note. The performer might use some extra "tricks" to get the very best sound, like bracing the thumb against the pointer finger, and plucking near the first harmonic node of the string. For the most resonant, full-bodied tone, a lot of thought has to be given to the rigidity of the finger and the angle at which it contacts the string.
Under normal circumstances, right-hand pizzicato is only done with the pointer finger.
In terms of technique, it helps to know the standard technique. I actually do this often on purpose in orchestral settings that would often be taken as divisi, say pizzicato octave double stops, just because I'm bored. A picture is worth a thousand words, so when I get a chance I might edit this answer with a video for demonstration. It could be considered a bit of an "extended technique," but is certainly not the hardest or most outlandish thing requested in modern repertoire. I disagree with Lazy it's very doable to pluck two strings simultaneously with two fingers.
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