Hello, everyone! I am a total newbie to the fiddle--I had never even touched a violin before a few weeks ago. That's when I mentioned to a friend that I adore violin/fiddle music (any sweet sound you can make with that instrument is delightful, regardless of origin) and that I'd always wanted to learn. Well, turns out she just so happened to have been a violinist back in the day, and hadn't touched her violin in about five years.

So I am currently borrowing said violin (a 1989 Suzuki, if that means anything to anyone), I'm starting lessons with a fiddle instructor this weekend, and I've been trying to learn what I can without teaching myself any bad habits. I'm still a little intimidated just to touch the violin, and I'm terrified of maiming the bow! I feel pretty good about my bow hold and I don't hate the noises I've been making so far... and that's as far I've gotten. The sum total of my past musical experience is that I can read music (slowly, I don't sight-read or anything), and I can kind of play the ukulele. A little. A very little. Ukes and fiddles seem to be sized about right for my tiny hands.

I am crossing my fingers that I'm not totally hopeless and this is something I can do. If not, I will sadly return my borrowed violin to it's owner and content myself with listening to other people's work. If I am any good at it, I'll buy a fiddle of my own, and I will pet it and squeeze it and love it and name it George.