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Keep Your Clippers Handy – Quick Practice Tip

Teacher: Vi Wickam

About Keep Your Clippers Handy – Quick Practice Tip:

Hi everybody! Vi Wickam here for myTalentForge.com, and this is your Quick Tip of the Week.

Now this one is especially important for you violinists, violists, cellos out there… But also applies to guitarists, mandolin players, and other string players.

It is one of the most important tools to always have in your case… Now that tool you may not think is quite so important because it’s so small…

But it is just as important as any other tool. It is the lowly and under-appreciated fingernail clipper.

Now this fingernail clipper isn’t just useful for clipping fingernails. It’s also very useful when your bow hairs break and you need to keep them trimmed.

Because taking care of our tools is important.

Keep your fingernails trimmed because you will strings will last longer, your intonation will be better, you can have problems with playing if your fingernails get too long.

AND it’s a useful tool for trimming your bow hairs.

That’s your Quick Tip of the Week! Keep your clippers handy! I’ll see you next time!

About Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam of Loveland, CO has been performing fiddle and writing music since before he could read. Along with his brothers and dad, The Wickam Family Band performed regularly on Blinky’s Fun Club, a nationally syndicated TV program.

Vi’s fiddling can be heard on numerous CD recordings, including two of his own. He’s played with many different bands throughout the United States, and even briefly in England.

Among his fiddling honors, Vi has won the Colorado State Championship twice, and been a finalist four times at the Grand Masters’ Fiddler Championship. He has judged fiddle contests throughout the US, and directed regional and state level fiddle contests.

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