On Tue, 22 May 2012 16:10:47 -0400, Warp wrote:

>   AFAIK that's the way it's written in the original score by Paganini.
> It's too difficult to play for most violinists, which is why they don't.
> Only a few people in the world can play it like Paganini did.

Yep, ricochet bowing on that scale is incredibly difficult and not many 
people can sustain it like that.

As noted in the comments, it's more typical (but not correct with regards 
to how Paganini wrote it) to do this as a spiccato style instead.

Paganini was a sadist who must've had some horrible wrong done to him by 
a violinist once. ;)

Jim

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