CHAPTER XV.--Delivery--Style--"Form" _v.

"Feeling"--Conception--Essentials of a "Fine" Delivery--Orchestral Playing 94

PREFACE.

In introducing this little work on Violoncello Playing, a few words of thanks and explanation are perhaps necessary. My thanks are due to the professional friends, and students--and also to others with whom I am not personally acquainted, who have spoken or written concerning the benefit they have derived from the study of the "Chats" during the serial "run" in THE STRAD. It is a great pleasure to find that through the perusal of these crude literary efforts, some few have derived pleasure or assistance--that some difficulty has been made easier of mastery.

An explanation will assist any who fail to realize the limitations and intentions of a work of this description. In the first place it is impossible to thoroughly exhaust the whole science and art of 'cello technique and 'cello playing; recognising this, it has been my aim to draw on my own experience as a teacher of the instrument, rather than follow in the trail of any existing work. With respect to the intentions of the work, nothing can equal _viva-voce_ instruction and the personal supervision of a good master, but it is to be feared that many who are really talented cannot afford lessons from anyone who is thoroughly capable of directing their studies--it is this class of player who will derive the most benefit from a conscientious study of the ensuing pages; may the instructions contained therein, direct and stimulate him to that which is good and artistic.

ARTHUR BROADLEY.

BRADFORD, YORKS., _January, 1899_.

CHATS TO 'CELLO STUDENTS