Children's Violin Choice Affects Their Future Development

08-06-2024

Children's Violin Choice Affects Their Future Development
Karl Flajs wrote in his "The Art of Playing the Violin": "If a child is allowed to use a grand piano that is out of proportion to his age in order to play louder, it will definitely affect his future development." Although Flajs is not specific about this issue, practice has proved that this theory is correct, and this influence is embodied in the following aspects:
(1) When children play with the grand piano, they have to break the normal and natural posture and stretch their arms and split their fingers, thus causing unnecessary tension.
(2) When children are playing, the normal concepts of the position and phoneme will be disturbed because they stretch their arms and split their fingers, so the pitch problem is difficult to control.

Under normal circumstances, because the hands are too small to reach when going up, the fingers will inevitably split and stretch forward hard when playing, causing unnecessary tension, and even so the sound is often low; On the other hand, when going down, the finger at the back (referring to the reserved finger) moves forward because it is hard to split and stretch forward when going up, but when the non-reserved finger comes back, even the phoneme can't be found, so the sound is often inaccurate (generally easy to be high).
(3) Some skills cannot be trained at all. For example, techniques such as splitting fingers, ten degrees and chords, especially the low grip, can't be played at all. This is a special problem unique to modern children's learning.
(4) If children often play with such unnatural postures as "twisting", "stretching" and "chopping" (except normal stretching fingers), they will not only learn the piano well, but also directly affect children's bone development, even lead to finger deformation, which is very harmful. It is not good for children to use the small piano. Practice has proved that the theory of "rather small than big" is also wrong. Although the harm of using a small piano is not as obvious as that of using a large piano, the development of children will also be directly affected.