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Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique

Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique

Update: 2025-04-05
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This story was written by Emily Wright for the March-April 2025 issue of Strings magazine and is read by editor Megan Westberg.

 There’s an old Monty Python skit where a husband and wife are discussing what could be scraped together for dessert after a horrendous dinner. The wife begins listing the options: rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, and strawberry tart. The husband is suspicious of the innocent-sounding option, and after a beat, his wife admits there is some rat in the tart...

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Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique

Thumb Position: A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique

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