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What to Know About Learning to Play the Violin as an Adult

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...
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Local shop provides astronaut with violin to play in space

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For the first time in history, an astronaut played a violin up in space. Sarah Gillis played her violin onboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon earlier this month. It was a historic ...
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Teen virtuoso teaches himself to play the violin after godly encounter | Kids Who Make SA Great

SAN ANTONIO — Samuel Igbo is good at a lot of things. The Boerne High School teen is an honor student, a member of several school organizations, a karate blackbelt, a track athlete, a short story ...
The Guardian

My rookie era: nobody sounds good when they first play a violin

The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax More summer essentials I knew the violin was an unforgiving instrument but I had always ...
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The history of violin playing, from its origins to 1761 and its relationship to the violin and violin music [by] David D. Boyden

Part four: The culmination of the early history of violin playing, 1700-1761. Introduction: the 'evolution of progress' theory, a summary view of the violin -- The violin and bow of the early ...