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Unfortunately you need to create a new account to access Minifiddlers Library. It's very easy, though! Just click the LOGIN button on the top right corner and choose "LOGIN MINIFIDDLERS LIBRARY". Then click the link "Sign up here". After verifying your email address we'll take you directly to the library.

Just click the LOGIN button on the top right corner and choose "LOGIN MINIFIDDLERS LIBRARY". Here you can log in. If you don't yet have an account, you can create one for yourself by clicking the link "Sign up here". After verifying your email address we'll take you directly to the library.

Minifiddlers Library is the new home for our online courses and other learning materials. Currently you can purchase and watch Géza's new online Colourstrings courses there, but later on we'll add more content. So stay tuned! You can still purchase and watch the Minifiddlers violin pedagogy courses at our old online shop at https://videos.minifiddlers.org

The Minifiddlers courses give you plenty of ideas and tips for teaching violin playing, e.g. for the exercises and repertoire, and all this you can explore by just watching the videos. However, if you want to use Colourstrings more systematically when teaching your students, we recommend purchasing the Colourstrings Books. The books are published by Fennica Gehrman and they can be purchased through their web shop as printed versions and most of them also as e-pubs.

No, you don't! As Géza says, Colourstrings is normal violin teaching and playing. Everything you need to know is explained in the videos. If at a later stage you feel like deepening your knowledge about the method, there are courses available to do that, but by no means that's mandatory.

Absolutely! Please send us an email and let us know which Minifiddlers Course you're interested in. Also, if there are several teachers in your school who are interested in watching the videos, we're happy to tailor you an offer. Our online shop is meant for private clients, so for organizations and businesses we issue the invoice separately.

The Colourstrings method is a string pedagogy developed by Hungarian brothers Géza and Csaba Szilvay, based on the philosophy of Zoltán Kodály. Géza Szilvay originally created the characteristic colored pages and game-like exercises for his family. During the decades to come the approach was refined and further enriched. It has gained international recognition and praise among the professionals for its child-centeredness and ability to prevent the most common problems of violin playing.

The Minifiddlers courses are an excellent tool if you're starting with a new group of beginner students. In the videos Prof. Szilvay teaches a group of children, so they're easy to follow along. You can watch one video per week and repeat the same exercises with your students. The videos offer step by step instruction for both individual and group teaching, and they provide lots of practical tips for the daily work, examples for exercises and repertoire. You don't have to give up your own teaching style - just pick the things that suit for you!