Believe it or not I had never listened to her before. Just heard her play bachs prelude for cello on viola amazing playing.

what got me thinking was I had been to see the messiah in the ashmolean this summer, longside other rare violins various strads and such, and Ithought it was sad that they will never be played again, that gotme to thinking of famous violinists and what iit would be like to hear their thoughts and techniques.

Mouse said

Fiddlerman said

I think that I would like to play on the Messiah Stradivarius which is worth about 200 million US dollars.

  

Geeze! I would like to be able to afford to buy it! I would let you play it!

  

Its funny, when we went to the museum to see it, people were walking straight past, without giving it a second glance, not knowing that it is probably the most expensive instrument in the world, and definately the most expensive artifact in the museum, it sits alongside the first Amati, as well as several other strads.

LordOdin said
I would probably choose an Electric Violin, i seem to get on better with Electric than Acoustic but no idea why, seen some very nice Electric ones which are a bit out of my price range at the moment. I am loving the sounds it produces with different effects and kind of makes it more enjoyable. Trying to learn Chi Mai on the Acoustic, when i listen to it, it sounds so simple but to me it's a PITA lol.

  

chi mai is beginner to intermediate, or maybe even higher, bts of third position in there, and even a fifth position note. simple sounding violin tunes are quite often deceptive, good luck.

Half the battle is hearing the tune in your head first.

I took a look at the sheet music online myself looks straightforward but like I said there are some third position shifts in there, best thing to do is record yourself playing it, dont know if you are doing that or not, but it shows if you are in tune, wih violin what you hear under your ear quite often doesnt sound the same to an audience. I remember first time I did a recording of myself playing ,it was what you could call dis heartening lol, but you have to persevere.🤓

no problem Emily, hope what you posted is some use to him, I didnt even think of changing the notes lol, sometimes the obvious isnt apparent, by the way the night music is coming along, not stopped for three days now, but it does help having not much else to do, I have memorised the first two pages of music, just a matter of getting it in tune with repetition now👂bythe way I really should start using a metronome, I am keeping my eye open in second hand shops when they re open for a traditional one, not keen on these electronic ones at all.