It depends on your personality. If you need the emotional connection, then I would recommend learning violin first, and playing all the scales and bar lines as first lessons. When did you start learning piano? I started playing piano when I was about 10 years old. I also spent quite a bit of time on […]
It all depends on your budget. Our Stradivarius cost from $10,000 to about $30,000, depending on the instrument and its location. Will I ever own a Stradivarius? No, never. The Stradivarius violin will remain a luxury item for musicians for the rest of their lives. Strad violins, violas, cellos, piano, bassoons, ukuleles, clarinets, tubas, and […]
It was easy enough to figure out what musicians are already familiar with; just look at guitarists’ hands and use the same fingering. The other half is to figure out what violins have in common with pianos and violas. Then we decided to make some comparisons and compare the similarities and differences between the three […]
The average salary of an Italian violinist is €35,000 and the average monthly wages are €1,140, according to the Italian Federation of Violinists (FIMA), an umbrella organisation which represents around 1,000 of the city’s more than 3,400 professional violinists. In a city of about 70,000, that translates to a net income of €4,500 per month. […]
Some folks suggest using a cleaning solution in your hands. The general idea is that it kills the micro-organisms on the string and then prevents them from spreading out during use. The cleaning solution we used in this video was water. Some folks like a little vinegar but we used water because of all the […]
What’s the one instrument that most affects your world? And the world has only one god? There’s something strange about that statement, doesn’t it? It seems weird to say that the earth is the most beautiful piece of music, but then, it’s an ancient way of thinking, right? If you think about it, music that’s […]
In other words, if you are willing to pay a decent price, you need to know a bit about what you got. Do you know what is the range of prices for different sizes and shapes of the same instrument? Is one more expensive than the other? How does the weight of the instrument differ? […]
I hope so, but it is hard to say! There is no set age, and people just age differently. And, of course, as I grow up, my skills develop as I do. For instance, when it was a new violin being made, some of my colleagues were complaining when I got a chance to play […]
The most sacred instrument? The most amazing invention? In the end, these instruments are all useful in some way. It’s simply a matter of how much you’re willing to get into. As many musicians and students know, learning to play the most sacred of guitar’s are crucial to the instrument’s continued greatness. So when we […]
(Answer: YES.) The problem here is not that the instrument is so easy to bend that, since it is the most basic instrument, it does no harm to attempt to apply bending. The problem is that the instrument is so easy to bend that not all those efforts to bend it are valuable. The reason […]