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I just want to add that it is very difficult for people without training to look natural "playing" the violin. In the movie "Master and Commander" Russell Crowe obviously spent a lot of time learning to fake and bow sync the extended violin scenes, to the point where he was often using correct fingerings for the passages he was faking. Still clearly faked, but I admire the effort that he put in to trying to make it look believable.
Most still photos with models not trained at al in violin playing are so unnatural looking the photographer would have been better off using a different prop, and I don't mean for the viewing pleasure of real players. One of the appealing aspects of violinist photographs is the sense of line and implied motion that one can get from the bow and bow arm. In this case, just as an example of how not to take advantage of this possible attribute, the line of the arm on the wheelchair cuts off the only possible downward motion of the bow arm. The player is visually and actually in a box.
Sorry, it is a pet peeve of mine, but I hope it will help others achieve better fake violin results.
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