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• Simon Hewitt Jones, Violinist

  English concert violinist. Asking essential questions about what's happening to music and the arts, and the role of the violin in contemporary world culture.

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Part of the Violin Tips series
Working on Bazzini’s fearsomely virtuosic Round of the Goblins this morning, I struck upon a passage in tenths (a double stopped note where the pitch of one note is ten degrees of the scale away from the other), and realized I’d have to slow it down and really work very […]