Editing Budapest String Quartet (section)

===Josef Roisman – second violin===

The man recommended to replace Pogany was [[Josef Roisman]], familiarly known as Joe. Roisman was born on 25 July 1900 in [[Odessa]], and was started on the violin at the age of six with [[Pyotr Stolyarsky]], who was also the first teacher of [[David Oistrakh]] and [[Nathan Milstein]]. After the tragic early death of Joe's father, a wealthy Odessa woman made it possible for him, his sister and mother to relocate to Berlin so that he could study with [[Alexander Fiedemann]]. There he befriended [[Boris Kroyt]], another Odesan studying with Fiedemann. At the outbreak of World War I, the family returned to Odessa where Joe continued his studies with [[Naoam Blinder]], another Odesan, who had just returned from England.<ref name=B27>Brandt pp 27&ndash;31</ref>

After the Russian revolution, Roisman was co-opted to play at farms and factories. He managed to escape in 1923 while working near Poland. He traveled to Prague, then to Berlin. In Berlin he met with Kroyt again, who found work for him in a film orchestra. It was during this time that the quartet offer came. Joe was comfortable and secure in the orchestra, but his first love was chamber music. In the end, his wife Polo persuaded him to take the financial risk and sacrifice involved.<ref name=B27/>

Immediately he began to regret it. Hauser and Son were constantly in dispute and soliciting his vote. Moreover, Roisman had his own issues, in particular involving Hauser and Ipolyi's inability to play in [[spiccato]] (German ''Springbogen'', or with "bouncing" bow), so that the quartet was forced not to use it. The rest of the quartet had had to become expert in using another bowing technique (German ''Spitzen'', or staccato at the point, or tip, of the bow) to get around Hauser and Ipolyi's lack of spiccato technique. Roisman found it very hard to readjust his bowing style accordingly. He had to spend many hours practicing, and was unhappy with the result. In Germany, the quartet was called ''das Spitzenquartett'' (not a compliment) because it substituted ''Spitzen'' (staccato) for ''Springbogen'' (spiccato).<ref name=B42>Brandt pp 41&ndash;42</ref>