Edited sentence: As a musician Rabin was all soloist all the time.He never gained the ability to sight read fluently enough to play chamber music without studying it before hand, although he enjoyed some chamber music playing.His playing, particularly the mastery of the bow, was largely influenced by his father who had a similar, flawless bow arm, and whose playing was powerful and sonorous in his own right.Particularly difficult was that he developed a near pathological fear of falling off the stage