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venuti · poutiainen2009-stringprovisation
- Citation
- poutiainen2009-stringprovisation
- Claim ID
- venuti
- Assertion
- Joe Venuti, who with guitarist Eddie Lang was a leading jazz musician of the 1920s, was a swing violinist whose improvisations were relatively diatonic; he told Matt Glaser that when improvising he used his first finger like a capo and played across the strings within an octave framework, a rule Glaser dubbed 'Venuti's Constant'.
- Quote
It is a very good rule for improvising on the violin, and I guess we can call it “Venuti’s Constant”; stay in position whenever possible, and play across the strings.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 98–99
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