There’s a good violin joke going around in the internet that’s been used, misused and abused in the orchestra where I play. When everyone is playing 32 notes at lightning speed with presto agitato and you can’t catch up, it says that you should just simply stand up, hold your violin up and say […]
When I was doing my training as a Suzuki Violin Pedagogist years ago, I always had parents come up to me asking what violin size was appropriate for their kids - and we’re talking about kids REALLY, from pixie 3-year olds to 5.Â
It was kind of difficult on my part to assign a violin size knowing […]
Finally, after fourteen years of (feigning to) play the violin - - - I’ve got my very own blog where I can rave, gush, chatter, obsess, pay homage, (well… you get the picture) about the violin on a good-violin-tone day… as well as scream, frustrate, bash and diss about it on a bad-violin-tone day. (Let’s […]