Emily going to take a look, at he copperplate you posted thanks for that, let you know how I go on with it.

That big fiddle, is certainly bringing out the best in you, no doubt about it. You just be very pleased with yoir progress, which is certainly now speeding up, it takes a long time just to get into it, which you now are. Great playing again John, I love the tone you are getting out of that instrument, very pleasing to the ear.

Strange isnt it, its like an abstract pleasure, indefinable, and an addiction.

Told you before, guitar was always my instrument, and then both types of banjo and other stringed instruments, but nothing gives me the pleasure and sense of accomplishment as playing the violin, it has something different that I just cant put my finger on, doesnt really matter how good  you are, which you have probably  now realised. I think its a very personal thing, and I am always amused when people dismiss violinists and viola players, when they have no idea how ridiculously difficult these are to even get any kind of sound from them, let alone a real tune, the only people who appreciate the work are other players who have been through the same thing.

I started to learn it because I heard a busker in Rome near the vatican and was blown away, and thought to myself, that those who played violin were real musicians and I was some kind of fake, I determined more or less on the  spot I would take it up as a challenge to prove something to myself, playing a fretted instrument is like painting by numbers, playing a violin is seeing with your ears, takes some doing.