I downloaded and explored Garage Band. It appears to be much more complex than the Voice Recorder app, and I didn't think the quality of the sound that I recorded was any better. Since I am already used to the Voice Recorder app, I think I'll just stick with it until I am ready to purchase a more sophisticated recording system. Thanks for the suggestion, anyway.

Thanks @Fiddlerman Yup. I tend to go all out when I do something. I have to remember to do things slowly and within my present range of motion. I am also doing stretches for my Basal Joint Arthritis: https://fiddlingforolderfolks......wing-hand/ The past couple of days I did all my stretching exercises and already my hands are feeling a bit better, but I have a long way to go. I know it will be a slow process, but that's OK. 

We tend not to do anything in life we don't like to do until the pain outweighs the pleasure.

I tend to be lazy when it comes to exercises. I have had bouts of Plantar Fasciitis (heel pain) over the past 5-6 years or so. I would go to physical therapy. I was always advised to go home and do the stretching exercises twice a day each day between physical therapy visits. I would usually do them half-heartedly when home because I had to stop my day to do them and look at a 'cheat sheet" to make sure I was doing them properly. It took time and effort. I was always putting them off, and half the time never did them twice a day or whole-heartedly, and I would usually stop doing them altogether after the physical therapy sessions were over. This resulted in never quite healing the PF or having it return again. I was in a state where the "pain" of PF did not outweigh the "pleasure" of not having to do exercises.

The last time I had a really bad bout, almost crippling, so I decided to completely learn the exercises by heart and with proper form. They became second nature to me. All of a sudden, I found I didn't have to stop my day to do these stretches; I started doing them "automatically". When I was waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, I would put my hands against the kitchen counter and do calf stretches. If I was standing on the front porch admiring a beautiful morning sunrise or  evening sunset, I would use the porch railing to do the same thing. If I was sitting in my recliner watching TV, I would do my foot stretches. All of a sudden, my stretches were becoming second nature and not something I had to stop my day for, but part of my day. I still do them to this day, and as a result, I haven't had a bout of PF for well over a year.

This is the same approach I have taken to doing my arm, wrist, hand and finger stretches, apart from using my violin. The "pain" of not being able to do something I want to do (in this case, learn the fiddle properly and competently) outweighs the "pleasure" of being lazy, not having to take time out to learn the proper form and execution of these exercises, and then doing them "twice a day". (A big part of approaching this is a good or proper mind set. It is also taking a close look at what I will lose out on if I don't do these stretches. What is my long term "pleasure" I will get by doing these stretches rather than what is the short term "pleasure" I will have if I don't do them.)

I now find myself doing them throughout the day. I can be sitting at a traffic light, watching TV, even stopping to think how I am going to write this post, and I almost automatically start doing some stretching exercise that will help me with my fiddle playing. I don't have to STOP and do some boring exercises that I don't really do properly.

The key to these stretching exercises was learning to do them properly, and "by heart" so I don't have to stop and watch the video or look at the "cheat sheet" each time I think to do them. That's a drag. And, if I don't know how to do these stretches "by heart", chances are I won't even think to do them until I am practicing. Who wants to stop a practice session to do stretching exercises? When we are in a practice session, we want to hold our violin, not set it aside. Another drag.

Like any discipline or movement I have to learn to play the violin, I had to change my view about these exercises and  stop seeing these exercises an annoyance, but a help and necessity. That allowed me to take the time to learn them, because I don't want the "pain" of not learning to play the fiddle to outweigh the "pleasure" it will bring in the long run.

I hope this all makes sense.

@Pete_Violin I certainly can relate. It's like the violin has a "special power" over you or is an outlet of expression that you never experienced before. In just one month, I can't believe the almost magical grip it has on me, like nothing I have ever experienced.