Hi all,

There is no real general question here at all, just an expression of feeling, so this may not even be the correct forum. For a VERY VERY long time I've had a longing to learn stringed instruments(typ violin). Right now I'm sitting at my desk listening to my favourite pieces music at I get that smile on my face and go all goose bumpy just listening to all the strings being played.

It's like I cant get home quick enough at the end of the day to pick my violin, I cant practice enough because my fingers wont let me. Picking up the violin I really REALLY just don't want to put it down again, cant get enough.

Does anyone else feel like this sometime/all the time. .

LiBiTiNa

:-)

yep i have i started flute three years ago and was really bitten by the bug now i am obsessed with the saxophone i spend time at lunch times reading about sax and flute. but word of caution dont look at sheet music and read it on your screen i tend to bob my head about when i read sheet music the rest of the office think i am really weird until i explain what i am looking at!

monkey

Oops, to late, Ipod on and sheet music on screen. LOL

Lib

I know what you mean! I often play until my fingers hurt and won't play right. Hopefully they will begin to get used to it so I can play longer! I'm obessed with listing to my favorite music. If I'm not spending time with my daughter or husband I am on the forums, reading about violin or practicing or listining to music! I think it's a good thing, it incourages you to want to really work at it and you'll go far.

All the time! If someone mentions the word violin then im DESPERATE to go practise I've been known to be out with friends and go home to practise my violin That's quite bad really isn't it

NO , NO, I completely disagree. LOL

Rachel

It's like a baby, you want to nurture it and love it! lol I'm aweful I always get really happy when my daughter goes to bed because then I get uninterupted practice time and I don't get a child prodding at my violin as if to say 'give me violin mama' lol.

I'm the same with Viola and Clarinet, absolutely love playing them and hate putting them down!

Nicia

I love my violin so much, as though she were a person But violins do have their own personalities and such whereas my flute and stuff didn't...

You mean it's not a person?

I often (whilst practicing) say to myself: ok, this is the LAST TIME I am going over this piece then 'I'll pack up for the day'

HALF AN HOUR LATER I've played the piece another 10 times and started playing something else

BUT I do occasionally feel tired (I have an extremely busy life) and think: ok, today I will give practicing a miss, I am just TOO TIRED (but this is only occasionally)

She is a violin person I didn't wanna come across as crazy But i love my violin as much as i love some people THAT worries me. !

I know I'm crazy but I actually speak to it as if it were a person 'please don't squeek like that it hurts my ears' or 'why do you have to be horribly out of tune everytime I get you out of the case?'

I don't really talk to her... but i talk ABOUT her like a person and treat her like a person I invested in a £400 case and silk pyjamas and a £50 maple shoulder rest for her, etc. She deserves the best Sometimes my friends will ask if they can have a go on her/look at her and i'm like 'well i'm not sure cause she's very shy and doesn't like strangers...' etc. they're like ummm okayyyy
What is your violin's name?

My violin is a boy and his name is Figaro, my double bass is also a boy and his name is Gandalf

But I think in terms of 'crazyness' you go beyond me Ffliwt, as I don't talk about my violin as if it's a person, nor I speak to it (erm Terra LOL)

Nice names
And hahaha i do worry myself sometimes. Some people think i'm purposely trying to be all eccentric and it's like no really i do just ADORE my violin
Though the other day my teacher had her violin in her hand sat on her lap so the scroll was infront of her face, turned around then turned back and thought the scroll was a person in the room?! (first glance ) and she was like 'gosh, i thought someone was in the room then! but no, it was just you *kisses violin*'
i don't kiss my violin...! but how long until i do

Valen likes to come on adventures with me we destroy the evil children's TV programmes with squeeks! Together we will take over the world.

That's interesting, ffliwt, because my violin seems to be a person in her own right whereas my flute isn't. I love my flute to bits, but she's actually part/an extension of myself - wheras my violin is more of an intimate friend and has her own character.

I kind of veiw my violin like that. My violin is a little person with his own personality where as my clarinet is like part of me (maybe because it's 14 years old but oh well). I couldn't live with out either of them.

Hmm, well the thing that sort of pulled me away from flute and towards violin is that violin is much more personal Each violin is different and has it's own personality and characteristics but well, a flute is a flute. Even though i have a solid silver + 14k gold Miyazawa classic flute But so do thousands of other people - no-one in the world has the same violin as me!

Here Here, LOL

Rachel.

How true my viola is much more special than my clarinet, is it kinda wrong that I spent more on an instrument I've only just started than an instrument I have played since I was 7???

I've took to viola so well always a pleasure to play it

Nicia

So as my violin is a person that must mean that when I'm playing and it doesn't sound very good, that's because the violin is in a bad mood and has nothng to do with the (lack of) quality of my playing

ok so i am at lunch with four music books bought at lunch time in the charity shop a gig list for tomorrows gig and reading this forum i name my instrumnets and have been guity of slow cooked meals ( place in oven then pracise check dinner when the smell of lovely cooked dinner reaches my nose!)


i do feed the fish and kitty cat as soon as i get in the door from work

only husband has to wait but he normally as guitar in paws so not too demanding

monkey flute/sax

I cook twice what I need and eat (virtually) the same the next day

Sounds like extra playing time to me!

I'd never get away with that in this house! lol. Violin practice is always done either if my daughter is in a good mood or once she has gone to bed. Besides she likes me playing twinkle twinkle over and over and it gets boring after a while. I must rather play the stuff I'm practicing.