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Standards vary from place to place.
In this week's local newspaper (yes, it's a weekly) there's a brief article about our local community orchestra, JPHIL. It says, in part, "New potential members need to bring their instruments and be willing to play a prepared music piece. All ages, most instruments and ability levels are welcome. Musicians must show proficiency in reading basic music notation and demonstrate a minimal proficiency on their instrument." (The italics are mine. 
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I just might be able to join sooner than I hoped. Their expectations are kind of low. 
I've learned so much from my mistakes that I've decided to make some more.
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Hi Gail! You have the potency and proficiency to join it. Good luck.
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it ..(William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night)
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Gail, That sounds hopeful, and good luck landing a position! That would be one of my goals as well. 
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gordon_sc said: The first time I asked a musician about how long it would take to learn to play the fiddle, he asked me how old I was, then told me I would not live long enough.
My violin instructor, who was 86, told me when I started that it would take 5 years for him to determine whether or not a student would play well. But thankfully he knew I just wanted to learn to play violin, and he never discouraged me.
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Dee Major said
Gail, That sounds hopeful, and good luck landing a position! That would be one of my goals as well.
@Gordon
gordon_sc said: The first time I asked a musician about how long it would take to learn to play the fiddle, he asked me how old I was, then told me I would not live long enough.
My violin instructor, who was 86, told me when I started that it would take 5 years for him to determine whether or not a student would play well. But thankfully he knew I just wanted to learn to play violin, and he never discouraged me.
It is my honest belief that if you practice rigorously, in other words more than 1-2 hours a week, you can become very good in a few years. Maybe not world-class virituoso. But certainly good enough to not hold back most entry/mid-level orchestras. This of course becomes easier if you have played an instrument earlier. Then again I am but an amateur 
@Gail: That sounds so cool!
"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild."
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I have decided try it for seven years before l decide if I want to play the violin or not.
No matter where you go, there you are!
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Not counting the four I have already invested!
Seven years starting right now.
No matter where you go, there you are!
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After 7 years you have no choice. You will almost certainly be hooked. I'm not even sure that rehab would work at that point. It might be too late already 
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The only thing that I am interested in accomplishing with any student is to get them to play better. To improve. How far they go is up to them.
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but the one who needs the least."
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Relative to what we "should be practicing" and your experience ...... do you like any method/exercise books for teaching?
Item #2 .... Do you have an opinion about Galamian scales?
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Wohlfhart, Kayser, Fiorillo, Kreutzer, Dancla, Rode, Paganini, Wieniawski, Mazas, Sevcik, Schradiek, Campagnoli, Gavines, Hubay, Ernst......
Not in order. Most etudes are good for something 
I love Flesch but Galamian is great.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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How about Dont!
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it ..(William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night)
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My ambition is to like my own playing. It is unclear to me how long this is going to take 
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!
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I'm surprised that this fine meeting of violin enthusiasts failed to single out the ultimate book for learning/teaching purposes:
WOHLFAHRT Op.38. Easiest Elementary Method. For Beginners on the Violin.
More like 1-2 year students. NOT elementary.
Includes teacher duet parts.
SUPERB!
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