XPost: rec.music.makers.bowed-strings   
   From: jdteske@comcast.net   
      
   On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:32:22 -0600, Harold Robbins   
    wrote:   
      
   >Mike Fontenot wrote:   
   >   
   >> A lot of bluegrass fiddle is played in the key of   
   >> B, but none of my instruction videos talk about   
   >> how to finger the notes in that key.  In just   
   >> looking at the positions on the fingerboard of all   
   >> the notes needed in the major scale, it appears that   
   >> either the first or second position will work OK.   
   >> Which alternative do most fiddlers use (at least   
   >> most of the time)?   
   >>   
   >> 	Mike Fontenot   
   >   
   >I'm a novice, but my favorite key is "D".   
      
   And in many violin methods books that is the first key beginners work   
   in since the finger pattern in the lowest violin octave in D is a very   
   natural and comfortable position to play in in first position.   
      
   I know I started in D major many years ago.   
      
   Jon Teske violinist   
      
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