Electric Violin vs. Acoustic – What’s the Difference?
Every popular these days is the electric violin. Most of my students (especially the girls), come to me every day and say they want to play like Lindsay Stirling. As a pretentious classical music elitist, I immediately throw up in my mouth a little. Then I think hey, if she helps little girls (or fellas)…
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9 of the Dumbest Violin Questions I’ve Heard
As a professional violinist, I get asked a lot of questions. Is the violin hard? Are your strings really made out of cat gut? How old were you when you started? And many more. Some of these questions are easy to answer. On the other hand, I’ve also been asked enough dumb violin questions to…
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Famous Composers and Their Habits
Sometimes listeners have trouble identifying music they hear, and they try to at least guess the composer. Sometimes it’s easy (like Haydn vs. Bartok), but sometimes it’s very difficult (Mozart vs. Haydn). We all have our favorite composers that we can always identify, but no matter who you are, there’s bound to be a work…
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Spring Updates – Some Big News
Greetings again, intrepid readers. It’s been entirely too long since I posted anything here, and for that I apologize. Spring is normally a very busy season for us freelance musician types, and this year was even more packed for me. I have some preliminary plans in place for some new and exciting content which will…
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