From Kenneth Goodare
Talking of excessive precision
(Letters, 28 March, p 64), when I was a child,
my father had an English translation of a manual on violin playing by the great
Hungarian-German teacher Carl Flesch.
It told budding violinists to lift their fingers 0.3937 inches from the
fingerboard. I still have occasional visions of music students trying to measure
this with micrometers.
Horsham, West Sussex
