Good! Personally, I prefer the cheese idea. In my very traditional tastes opinion, it has much more style and is much nicer to look at than a lot of 'out of context' studies. I often find those so gruesome that I wish I'd never seen them! I prefer art for prettiness, not shock value. Yes, I'm old-fashioned, but there you have it! I still love the carrot!

LOL!

don't do it to Agapanthus but buy a mega cheap violin i mean real cheap and do it with that, it'd be so interesting! Or even better do it with one of those coloured violins and the water would gradually turn the colour of the violin......

I'm really enjoying my viola playing (and it's staying in tune when I can actually get it in tune)

My teacher naughtily ( ) gave me the CD of Grade 3 viola pieces and I've already picked out three I like while listening to it in the car....

BUT.. I did play Martha for an hour yesterday and gave Agapanthus the day off

I've noticed I'm playing far more now these days which is wonderful because I'd really become stale and wasn't playing much at all.

Viola exams..... hmmmmmmmmmm I was hoping to do Grade 4 violin in June.. could I take Grad 3 Viola on the same day

*is tempted a little bit to do her grade 8 viola*

Had 3 hours of viola sectionals yesterday which was pretty intense when there are only 4 of us.

lottie we could do a viola chellenge together, you go in for grade 3, I'll go in for grade 8. what do you think?
x

I think you should do it

Oh yes... I love a challenge!



... and you should join us too...

My teacher doesn't even know i have a viola

I couldn't do it anyway cause my teacher wants me to do my grade 8 violin in the summer I really don't think i'll end up doing it but i'll certainly work

If you do Trinity exams you have the option of doing one piece on the viola if you do the violin exam at the higher grades (and vice versa) .
Don't shoot me down in flames on an ABRSM forum but their repertoire choices are rather good too at the moment..... and you don't have to do so many scales.....

Very interesting....

Ok, I think I'm going to do it. Seriously. Lottie are you in?

Pieces:
A - Bach prelude from suite 3
B - Glazunov elegie
C - undecided, opinions welcome.

Scales - exactly the same as violin gr8 except a 5th lower.
Aural - Always a weak point but I'll domy best.
SR - Not too bad.

Do you think I can do it?

x

I'll ask my teacher tomorrow night at my lesson but she did give me the CD of the pieces last week so she must know that I will probably want to do it... *will act all innocent and not manically driven like I usually do*

But so far I'm ....

A.. don't know.. although possibly Bach from the Anna Magdalena suite
B.. don't know
C.. 'Summertime'.. I heard it on the CD and it's gorgeous

Scales.. I can play one. C. Am working on two octaves of G.
Aural.. okay because I took Grade 3 violin last year
Sight Reading.. non-existant - I only met the Alto cleff a couple of weeks ago so the SR is a bit dodgy

Just an update on Pan II:

I spoke to a very lovely man about 'set up' from The Violin Shop (Glasgow, 150 miles away but still the nearest specialist!). He thinks it will be possible to narrow Pan's neck by a few millimetres from mostly the fingerboard, but that it will make things more comfortable. He said they would also fit a bridge properly and check the soundpost (move or change it if necessary). And they're not too expensive! Hooray!

Even better, he said if we arrange it I could drop Pan off in the morning and they would do it in a day so I can pick him up and take him home in the car instead of posting him ( ) Yippee - a daytrip to a BIG city

However - the strings I want cost £76 a set!!! Now I just need to raise some money

Anybody want to buy a painting of a violin???

Isn't this fellow a lot closer to you?
He's very good.