Re: violin to mandolin, your experience please
Originally Posted by
bratsche
I'm lucky in that my teachers both always smelled good, or at least clean, didn't smoke or have bad breath, etc. I wonder how much correlation there is between such things and whether a student continues playing or just quits?
Quitting was not an option for me back then, so it was just another brick in the wall (apologies, Mr Waters) that had written "violin ain't fun" all over it.*
*someone will point out that violins don't kill motivation, people do. For brevity, I'll say in advance that until it will become possible to avoid people I'll make do with second best, i.e. avoiding the violin, and that playing the mandolin has helped me a lot with that.
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