International Minifiddlers

17/08/2026

Last day of the Colourstrings Beginner Package offer 🎻

Get a structured first-year curriculum and practical tools for teaching beginners, from pedagogical principles to real lesson examples.

Save €95 on 12 months of access.

Use discount code BEGINNER at checkout.

Offer ends today, Monday 17 August.

https://www.minifiddlers.org/online-courses/colourstrings-beginner-package

06/08/2026

Learn the core principles of the Colourstrings approach and discover how they are applied throughout the first year—from basic movements, rhythms and bow-hold to left-hand flageolets and note reading.

The Colourstrings Beginner Package includes:
• Colourstrings Lecture for Book A
• Colourstrings Lecture for Book B
• Minifiddlers Violin Pedagogy 1st Year Course (32 real video lessons)

Special campaign price: €144 for 12 months of access
Save €95. Equivalent to €12/month, paid in full at purchase.

Use discount code BEGINNER at checkout.

Offer valid through Monday, 17 August 2026.

Explore the package:
https://www.minifiddlers.org/online-courses/colourstrings-beginner-package

23/12/2025

🎶 Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way…
We wish you happy holidays!
Toivotamme oikein lämmintä joulunaikaa! ✨

17/10/2025

🎻 Exploring the whole fingerboard from the first lessons
In the Colourstrings Method, children use the entire fingerboard from the beginning, combined with flageolets. This playful approach keeps the hand relaxed and light, and it prevents the thumb from becoming rigid — laying the foundation for smooth and easy shifting later on.

👉 Watch the full clip on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbt8yVu3CVM

🎶 Want to dive deeper into this phase?
The Colourstrings Beginner Package includes Géza’s Lectures for Colourstrings Violin ABC Books A & B and the Year 1 Minifiddlers videos — essentially the materials for the entire first year:
👉 https://www.minifiddlers.org/online-courses/colourstrings-beginner-package

🎻 Exploring the whole fingerboard from the very first lessonsIn the Colourstrings Method, children use the entire fingerboard from the beginning, combined w...

24/07/2025

🎻 July Special: 50% Off Our Online Training Packages!

Looking for fresh tools and inspiration for teaching young beginners? Or want to revisit the essentials of the Colourstrings method? For a limited time, get 50% off two of our comprehensive video packages for violin teachers:

🎶 Géza’s Colourstrings Lectures: Books A–D
8+ hours of in-depth guidance from Prof. Géza Szilvay on what, when, how, and why to teach during the student’s first 3-4 years of violin playing.

🎶 Colourstrings Beginner Package
A complete weekly lesson plan with demonstration videos for teaching the challenging early stages of violin playing.

✨ Use code JULY50 at checkout (valid until July 31st, 2025)
👉 https://www.minifiddlers.org

Here’s a short video introduction to the Book A Lecture, included in both packages:
📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA1rdx59d8g

Learn how to teach violin for children with Colourstrings Method 🎻 More about Book A online course here: https://www.minifiddlers.org/online-courses/colours...

23/12/2024

We wish you Happy Holidays! Toivotamme oikein hyvää joulua! 🎶❤️

28/06/2024

22/04/2024

A great article written by Anna Grundström ❤️

Géza Szilvay recently turned 80 and began to develop his world-famous Colourstrings method more than 50 years ago. Anna Grundström discovers the sources of his inspiration

04/04/2024

We’re really glad that the PRESTO project has been awarded the Erasmus+ Award of Excellence by the Tempus Public Foundation! What an honour and joy it has been to be part of this 2-year journey. Extensive resources for music learning developed in this project are available for everybody free of charge at www.kodalyhub.com/presto.

Bravo and congratulations, all our dear partners! ❤️👏
Kodály Intézet NYCOS DCU School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music Sing Ireland

PRESTO - Practices and Resources for Equipping Schools to Teach Music Online - is a collaborative transnational research project funded by the KA226 Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Programme of the European Union and a "Good Practice" label awardee for the 96% evaluation score.

23/03/2024

Left foggy Helsinki and landed in sunny Porto☀️ For the next days you’ll find us and Fennica Gehrman at the conference for ESTA (European String Teachers Association). Come and say hi, we have everything Colourstrings & Minifiddlers online courses (and much more)! ✨🎶