Violin Forum/Message Board

That is so great, Dr. Strange! Keep us up to date! Shirley

I sure will Shirley, thank you.

Hi Becky, to answer your question, no he never offered an explanation but I did not ask him why he didn't mention it up front either. In the meantime my lessons are going great with my current instruc ...

Thanks for the advice and encouragement everyone. I am using the other violin teacher from the music store, everything is going great. Mr Haning was great also but I think maybe just a bit advanced fo ...

I've been thinking about some things after my lesson and I'd like to run this past you folks. My teacher was very nice and I heard one of his students learning from him when I arrived. She played beau ...

Thanks for all your responses. I had my first lesson tonight, he showed me how to tune my violin, his preferred left hand positioning and I plucked twinkle twinkle little star. I was stoked. We will b ...

Okay, so I went to my first lesson tonight. My teacher looked over my violin and he was amazed that it had real purfling and said that for $50 it was awesome. He wants me to get nylon core strings bec ...

I just wanted to stop in and update this. It arrived today, UPS really destroyed the box it was in. It was ripped, wrinkled and crushed over every square inch. I literally looked at the UPS guy and sa ...

I ordered the cheapy, I let him know I want him to look it over. After looking at the sellers feedback on ebay, I found that literally thousands of people bought this violin and very few had any compl ...

Thanks for letting us know Dinga. Please give us an updated review of it after you have used it for a bit.

Wow, Dr. S! It sure looks as though if anyone can motivate you, it would be Mr, Haning! You will be SURE to let us know what you think?

As a violist, I particularly appreciate his comment that, &q ...

Thank you and yes I also thought his site was thorough.

I found a teacher nearby. I emailed him last night and he replied back that he has room for another student. His rates are reasonable and he is only minutes away. I know this is a boring post but I'm ...

I guess why not.
My daugheter's instructor had color tapes put on her 1/10th violin. I thought about having them for myself, but I've tried to practice without them. Since it is easy to peel off and ...

best to train your ear, teach yourself good habits.

That is my biggest concern, I don't want to have to unlearn a bad habit down the road.

would it be difficult/troublesome looking at music sheet and finger chart on fingerboard at the same time?

True, but being new to violin I will be watching my finger placement anyway.