Shift

A change in the position of the left hand, in playing the violin, etc., from the first position, in which the forefinger stops its string a semitone or tone higher than the (pe of the open string, according to the scale; the and position is called the Aal/-shi/t, the grd the whole shift, and the 4th the double shift, When out of the Ist position the plage is said to be ‘on the shift”, and sifting up or down, as the case may be. (See Position.)