"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> You played violin?  That's cool. :-)
>>
>> Did you just take lessons in school, or private lessons, or self-study?
>
> All students at my school were required to learn violin and recorder. But 
> then the music teacher retired, and the music lessens stopped. Eventually 
> they found a replacement, but we only learned how to play electronic 
> keyboard [or rather, how to call up the autobacking]. Oh, and guitar. Ever 
> heard a Persian guy sing "Amazing Grace"? That song is boring at the best 
> of times...
>
> Interesting fact: When *you* play a violin, it sounds nothing like what 
> you hear on the TV. It sounds like somebody dragging a strip of horse hair 
> over a cheese wire. (Which, actually, is what it is.) I always assumed my 
> violin was just naff. But then one day the teacher is, like, "no no 
> Andrew, that F is flat. Give me that!" She takes my violin and plays what 
> I had just been playing. Except it sounds amazing.
>
> Um, OK. So it's *me* that's naff. :-|
>

If you can become very good with violin and play Paganini's Caprices 
(especially #16 and #5) and you switch over to electric guitar and master 
the Caprices on guitar, you could really rock. especially if you can learn 
to improvise as well.

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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