Ronald Birks (member of the Lindsays)

Hurrah....so glad you went for Ronnie and not Mr Bell!!!!
I have a ticket for the Lindsays last ever concert at the end of this month. Can't believe they're retiring.

For "c" then I have to go Peter Cropper

Augustin Dumay

Mischa Elman

Eric Friedman

Erich Gruenberg

darn, I was hoping to be around for G - Grappelli was the only famous violin I could think of in the first bit of the alphebet!

Gotta be.....

Jascha Heifetz

darn, yes I should have thought of Stephan Grappelli!

Oh well ...

Rachel Isserlis

well, you're doing better than me! lol.



Oooh, any relation to the cellist? Saw him in concert once - really really great!

Janine Jansen (does that score double??)


Oh and Joseph Joachim another doubler!!!

argh, I'm sure I do know at least SOME violinists, but can't think of any in the first bit of the alphabet...

ahhh nigel kennedy!!! I knew I knew at least ONE!!!!!! phew!

I'll race you to the Ms and Os, Sarah.

Hurrah!!!!!!

Ok I'll go L soon and then it will be M

Are you on your blocks!!!!

why do I have a suspicion you would beat me?!

well I did at least think of a K *points* so I am no longer letting the violinists' side down (so much...!)

Tasmin Little

ready for the "m"????

Yehudi Menuhin

Ok shall I go "N" so its on your blocks for "o"

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Coming soon........

lol!

Ginette Neveu

*stands back to avoid being crushed in the rush*

*thinks.....Pere or Fils????*

David Oistrakh

Yessss!

Thoroughly beaten!!

Itzhak Perlman (woo!)

lol, how old are we? it's fun being kids again, huh?

C'mon Sarah...Andante wins again!!!!

There's a famous P......think caprices????

Oh and that guy who always sits down to play!

Ooops messages crossed anyone know a "Q"

lol, yeah I should've thought of paganini, too, but there was a Perlman poster in my classroom for years at school so he's easy to remember!

Yessss I thought of one!!

Coming soon......

I shpuld really be practising but just got broadband today, so am enjoying fast surfing!!!

Are you ready with an R...I'm going to post the Q soon (unless you get there first!!)

I'm retiring while the going's good. The only other violinist I can think of is Kya-Wan Chung and we passed her ages ago. (And I'm not sure I've got her name right either - I've got an alto saxophone blasting in my ear and it stops all cognitive processes.)

doubtful, m'dear!

thinking... it's a bit tough on the old brain cell today...

OK...I'll go and do my practice and save my Q until tomorrow. Someone else might get it in the meantime

Goodnight!!!

I can imagine...

I think I'm almost out, jane, you just know way more violinists than I do!!!

Philip Quint
I think ...

Rode, Jacques Pierre Joseph. They don't have to living do they?

Albert Sammons

Woooo well done, aznd he wasn't who I was thinking of. I had Manuel Quiroga!

No they don't have to be living....its hard enough as it is!

Alive one - Christian Tetzlaff
Passed on to the great orchestra in the sky one - Jaques Thibaudet (have I spelt that right?)

U

erm ....
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Oh dear, I was relying on you for "U", cos (a) I can't think of anyone and ( I wanted to do "V"!!!

I can think of two violists.
Ozcan Ulucan and Ula Ulijona (counts double!)

...I bet they started on violin, or at least have had a go on a violin at some point.

Or there's Bronislaw 'Uberman (soz!!)

Well done - I couldn't even get one.

I'll get shot no doubt if I don't list

Maxim!

Bless you, you know me too well

Wieniawski

X is tricky; Hong-Mei Xiao - a viola player - started on violin....

Where's the V, Jane?
Viotti, Giovanni Battista

We did V but didn't mention it

Ysaye

Zukerman, Pinchas

Yaey! That's it for the violinists.
How about the nicknames or names of our musicians on this forum for fun?
Note:- you cannot post your own name, but others who have been posting a fair amount. How's that?