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[PutraenusAlivius]

2 month bump. Awesome.

Spoiler below!

Nathan Milstein's bowing is actually quite odd. He uses the Russian bow grip and what I notice that his bowing IS NOT straight at all! In this video, you can sometimes see a straight bowing and a crooked one. But the sound produced is amazing. Also he didn't use a Shoulder Rest.

You can see Milstein's crooked bowing in this video as it's more evident. I've read in Violinist.com that the Auer's students move their shoulder backwards or forwards so that the wrist is in it's natural Russian bow grip shape like the one in Mendelssohn's Concerto above.

Also, it seems like that the wrist of the left hand is slightly bend but still nearly straight. It seems like that people who used the Russian bow grip can't go slow, only fast (Evidenced by Heifetz. I mean his rendition of Rachmaninoff's Vocalise is fast. Over 60 BPM as originally marked.)