Two Minute Tip - How to Hold Your Cello Bow for pizzicato

[This is a louder version of a previously too-soft video.]
Learn this nifty trick for getting your bow quickly between arco (bowing) and pizzicato (plucking). This is also the way you hold the bow when you are adjusting your fine tuners (see tuning video for more info). #cello #celloteacher

[@young_aclement4134]

It is sooo useful! Thank you again

[@michaelmcleary8566]

This has been useful. I've only been playing for 9 months and I struggle to swap between arco and pizzicato. I also sometimes struggle to hold the bow correctly due to my hand atrohpying over time through a bad injury to my wrist.

[@CelloRefinery]

It definitely takes some practice to do this swap! Use it every day while you are tuning - that's the same shape when you reach down to the tuner. I'm sorry you have sustained an injury, but hope you are able to find work-arounds for that.