Now here's a curious thing...

I bought a violin so I could once again play Ode to Joy. Not, of course, 
that I'll have an entire orchestra to drown out my awful violin skills 
this time. :-P

So anyway, I had a look on YouTube, and it's the strangest thing... none 
of the recordings I could find sound anything like what I played at 
school. In particular, I specifically remember that the piece starts out 
pizzicato. I remember this because... well, playing pizzicato is 
FRIGGING HARD, actually. You'd think it would be easy; /clearly/ you 
haven't met our music teacher! 8-o Scary lady...

None of the recordings I can find have any pizzicato in them. None of 
them seem roughly the same tempo. They all have dynamics that rise and 
fall seemingly at random. The piece we stayed started very quiet and 
gradually got louder and louder. (I don't even know how to PLAY 
triple-forte on a violin. It doesn't *go* that loud!!)

That can only mean that either we were playing some strange 
rearrangement of the piece, or... I have no idea, actually.

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