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Witness History

The Suzuki Violin Method

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In post-WW2 Japan, musician Shinichi Suzuki developed a new method of teaching the violin - which would spread around the world. Brothers Hideya and Toshiya Taida were two of the first students to graduate from the Suzuki Method.

IMAGE: Children of the Suzuki Method music school play the violin at founder Shinichi Suzuki's memorial concert in Tokyo on March 28, 2008. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images

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world service today we're going back to Japan in the 1940s where in the wake of the Second World War

1:16.0

a musician called Shinichi Suzuki developed a new method of teaching the violin which would go on to

1:22.0

spread all over the world. I'm Lucy Burns and

1:25.0

I've been speaking to two brothers who were some of the first students to graduate from the

1:29.5

Suzuki method.

1:37.0

He always prays and never complain.

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