The "Colour Strings" Method
The Colourstrings method was invented by Géza and his brother Csaba Szilvay in Finland in 1971. In the Violin ABC, the four strings are identified by different colours and characters. Initially reading music means matching colours and following the melodic line of pictures. The colourful pictures and notes gradually give way to conventional notation. At the beginning of Colourstrings uses relative solmisation (a movable Do) and the child is later introduced step by step to the absolute letter names and pitch.