if anyone plays the violin here's the place to talk about it

I don't play, but I like the way it sounds. My friend plays Violin, though.

i used to play violin...if that counts... :blink:

I thought there was another thread like this...but I could be wrong. Yup I play, yup I'm crap, yup it's difficult. Really takes the piss when some 11 year old kid is like at grade 7 already (In England there's only 8 main grades before diploma).

:blink: ...whoa....

Yeah but you play in a chambre orchestra which you say is the top level so you must be good too! I reckon prodigyviolin101 is meant to be good too from his name.

I play and I suck too - I never took any exams XD I'm in a chamber group with all these Grade 7/8 people but they're all mates so they tolerate my awful playing ;)

thank you so much for answering this post it means alot.

Originally posted by an-kun@Jul 5 2005, 11:23 AM
Yeah but you play in a chambre orchestra which you say is the top level so you must be good too! I reckon prodigyviolin101 is meant to be good too from his name.


thanks i like to think i'm good. And fyi i'm a girl ^-^

Originally posted by prodigyviolin101@Jul 5 2005, 05:52 PM
thanks i like to think i'm good. And fyi i'm a girl ^-^
:o Not again! How many times have I done this!? Sorry! :heh: I'm rubbish cos I can't be bothered to practise. XD

there there *pats on back* i get that a lot too. i'm trying to convert friggin kingdom hearts: hikari into cello music, all it comes in is violin...sheesh. it's hard, i don't remember much.

^ can't you just transpose it up 2 notes?

violin doesn't transpose into a cello by two notes. One is treble clef and the other is bass. Doing it an octave lower would help though.

i can help, send me the music, and i'll transpose it for you. at least i'll try. or another option follow these directions: Cello is four octives lower than violin, therefor to transpose it just bring the notes down four octives ex: from and e to a g on the violin to the cello. Its not that difficult if you have studied any form of music theory, you can do it, just keep trying. They offer even online courses about music theory i have looked into it myslef. go to sharrmusic.com they have a pretty extensive section on music theory books the last time i checked into the site. They updated it though so you might have to search around a bit. there was another site4 that was very good but i can't think of it right now. try doing a web search if you are interested. hope this helps. v^-^


i love the violin!!!! hope this helps

i want to learn Violin...though i think i'll end up quitting because of my age T_T think i'm too old lol

You're never to old to learn violin. I think its wonderful that you even have an interest inEspecially if you teach Piano, Violin should come much easier for you. You already have experience with reading sheet music, (that will really help when you get into the serious playing a.e. bach concerto in e major etc.) It has 100 double stops in the first eight measures. its a very fast paced composition. have fun!!! starting may seem frustrurating at first, but it gets easier over time. just keep at it. Woot Woot you can do it.
prodigyviolin101 Posted on Jul 7 2005, 01:58 AM
You're never to old to learn violin. I think its wonderful that you even have an interest in it. Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions!
it. Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions!

Especially if you teach Piano, Violin should come much easier for you. You already have experience with reading sheet music, (that will really help when you get into the serious playing a.e. bach concerto in e major etc.) It has 100 double stops in the first eight measures. its a very fast paced composition. have fun!!! starting may seem frustrurating at first, but it gets easier over time. just keep at it. Woot Woot you can do it.

hey i play violin. does any one here use the suzuki books?

yes i do!!!!!!!!!!!!! what book are you in?

By the way prodigyviolin101 there's an edit button in the top right corner of your posts that you can use to stop double posting. Double posting is against the rules and you'll annoy the mods if you keep doing it. Just to let you know.

Originally posted by prodigyviolin101@Jul 7 2005, 02:28 PM
yes i do!!!!!!!!!!!!! what book are you in?
yes i do!!!!!!!!!!!!! what book are you in?


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im on book 10 u?

Meh. What exactly is Suzuki anyway? I don't understand. I'm considered good... but I've never played Suzuki.

Just curious what everyone else is working on, though. I'm doing Mozart's Fifth right now, as well as some Tchaikovsky for next year's orchestra. There's also some sort of national music festival that is taking place in my hometown that I missed the deadline for, but the director came to my school begging us to join, which gives me warm fuzzies. We're playing a bunch of stuff, but the only ones I know for sure are Haydn D major Concerto, the Strauss Fanfare, and "the Brass music"... whatever that is. I think it might be for the brass instruments. :P

Anywho, what are you all playing?

You sound good. Maybe you might fancy taking up the ichigos band task. Are people as really good as they say they are on this forum? That's what I always get confused about.

This is true. However, as soon as I get my new program up and running that will transpose WAV files to MP3 files(if I can figure it out... I suck at computer things!), I will gladly post a sample of me playing. I guess I could lie, and say I'm good... but what purpose would that serve? I guess it depends on where you're at; there's people at my school (which is magnet, but still!) that make me look like a baby learning chopsticks on the piano. :P

I have posted in the Ichigo band thingy before... I'll have to get back there and see what's happening.

Thrice curse it! Apparently the only way that I can utilize this program is by first recording myself onto a CD, then extracting the file from there. Well, I will eventually be making a CD of myself, but not for a while. I need to compile 80 minutes or so of music first, or my father won't allow me to use a blank CD... he considers it wasted space. :rolleyes:

Hey don't worry, I wasn't just refering to you. I'm pretty sure your a very good musician because you want to prove it. Plus if it's nationals, then you must be good.

I've got a question though - is there any way of reading the notes like near the top of the violin's capacity without just guessing or taking your time to figure it out?

i jstu started my viollin lesson like 2 weeks ago i've only had 2 lessons i really suck. i use the suzuki books but i'm only on the first book lol all i can really play is the scales so i have a really long way to go

Originally posted by an-kun@Jul 12 2005, 10:48 AM
Hey don't worry, I wasn't just refering to you. I'm pretty sure your a very good musician because you want to prove it. Plus if it's nationals, then you must be good.

I've got a question though - is there any way of reading the notes like near the top of the violin's capacity without just guessing or taking your time to figure it out?
u mean shifting right?

Um I'm not sure what you mean by shifting. I think you mean position chnages?

I'm just more concerned with what note I'm actually playing because I can't sightread it quick enough. I just listen to what the leader plays and match that note in a split second which I want to get out of the habit of. Although I don't really know what part of the string the note is actually at. :heh: It's usually the notes which are like in 500th position (exaggeration but you know what I mean).

I have been playing the violin for 5 years and I&#39;m currently working on Akuma no Trill-Metal Version First Violin and Partita 3 Gavotte en Rondeau. I practice about 2-4 hours a day and I guess I&#39;m pretty good for as short as I have been playing. And I&#39;m in the First Violin section along with all the seniors and I&#39;m a sophmore. >.< lol

I&#39;ve only been playing violin for about 8 to 9 months, but since I&#39;ve already played other string instruments, I&#39;ve caught on pretty well, plus I can sight read very well.


I&#39;m still better at guitar and singing though ^.^;

Originally posted by Sora@Jul 13 2005, 06:39 PM
I have been playing the violin for 5 years and I&#39;m currently working on Akuma no Trill-Metal Version First Violin and Partita 3 Gavotte en Rondeau. I practice about 2-4 hours a day and I guess I&#39;m pretty good for as short as I have been playing. And I&#39;m in the First Violin section along with all the seniors and I&#39;m a sophmore. >.< lol
Well if you practised for that long I wouldn&#39;t be surprised. I don&#39;t really practise at all until about a week before my exams (I&#39;m being serious). I regret doing that though because my basic technique is lousy whilst my advanced stuff is good. It&#39;s good that you practise that much&#33; ^_^ Don&#39;t do what I did&#33;

violin ish great i love going into high postions and killing my eardrums with high pitch notes..
but the violin is a good intrument, but it gets really painful holding the intrument for over 2 hours (practicing)
And for some strange reasons ,my bow grip is always too tight..
and kinda lopsided lol
nyaaa

edit: I took praivate violin for 5 months and took the exam for lvl 4.. and yep i passed&#33; ^_^ i regret not doing lvl5
I might do lvl 7 this year for violin..
after i take that freking hard theory test.
Man i hate theory..
A semitone is 2 notes half stepped apart right...?

Originally posted by Eternal@Jul 13 2005, 12:37 PM

And for some strange reasons ,my bow grip is always too tight..



That sometimes happens to me but I can never find a way to relax my hand and my thumb digs into the bow and it hurts. >.<

Originally posted by an&#045;kun@Jul 12 2005, 10:48 AM
Hey don&#39;t worry, I wasn&#39;t just refering to you. I&#39;m pretty sure your a very good musician because you want to prove it. Plus if it&#39;s nationals, then you must be good.

I&#39;ve got a question though - is there any way of reading the notes like near the top of the violin&#39;s capacity without just guessing or taking your time to figure it out?
Heh. Thanks. I do want to prove it though, just because I know it&#39;s easy to say stuff over the net where no one can call your bluff.
Well... I didn&#39;t even know how to shift into third position a year ago when I started taking private lessons; I mostly taught myself to recognize the top notes... and now I can just sort of tell, where I used to have to write the name of the note in even for like the C on the E string and lame stuff like that. I think you just have to play it over and over... eventually you&#39;ll just know it. Like learning to read music for the first time. You stop, and figure out the note because you haven&#39;t seen it enough to just know.

However, if you can memorize the number of ledger lines underneath a specific note it helps you recognize it faster. Then you can tell by the appearance of the note.
Also, you can sort of guess by the notes around it sometimes. Like if you can&#39;t tell an from an A or something, you can sometimes tell by how high the other notes are.




I have been playing the violin for 5 years and I&#39;m currently working on Akuma no Trill-Metal Version First Violin and Partita 3 Gavotte en Rondeau. I practice about 2-4 hours a day and I guess I&#39;m pretty good for as short as I have been playing. And I&#39;m in the First Violin section along with all the seniors and I&#39;m a sophmore. nugget.gif lol.

Ai, the Partita&#33; I hate that song&#33; It gets stuck in my head so much... I was supposed to play it a while back, but my teacher forgot that he gave it to me, because he focused more on Mozart. ^_^

Good for you all, i&#39;m so happy that people are really starting to talk about violin. Way to go all of you. Yay, i have wanted to create a forum about this for so long, and am going to take alot of the advice posted on this. Thanks guys&#33;&#33;

Originally posted by Kalile Alako@Jul 13 2005, 04:20 PM
Ai, the Partita&#33; I hate that song&#33; It gets stuck in my head so much... I was supposed to play it a while back, but my teacher forgot that he gave it to me, because he focused more on Mozart. ^_^
I love that song&#33; I could play it for hours&#33; ^_^ Well, I have already, lol. Anyways how long have you been playing the violin I&#39;m not sure if you ever said it, and if you did I missed it? >.<

No, I like the song... but it gets stuck in my head so often&#33;

I&#39;ve been playing for about 4 1/2 years; I started in sixth grade, playing in the school orchestra. I started getting lessons about two and a half years ago, and I&#39;ve gotten so much better since then it&#39;s not even funny. *laughs* :D

I have been playing since 6th grade. I started off in Mariachi, thats the only way I could learn how to play the violin. I didn&#39;t even know what a violin or Mariachi was&#33; lol So I joined learned how to play and then went to Orchestra and I have been playing for 5 years and I haven&#39;t had private lessons but I&#39;m getting them in September. ^_^

P.S. By the way I have no mexian blood in me what so ever. lol >.<

What&#39;s a Mariachi? @_@

I love Mariachi&#33; At least... I like the one at our school. There&#39;s only two violinists, which makes me sad, but there ya go.

And the only Mexican that I can actually stand that&#39;s in the Mariachi class is the one who plays the violin. He&#39;s really good. There&#39;s only three people of Hispanic descent in the class, actually, and two of them are annoying, and one plays the violin atrociously.

Actually, they came in to play for us, and there was a song that required a high, ululating yodeling trill. The person who emitted that ear piercing cry was whiter than me. And I&#39;ve got mainly Nordic blood. So there. ^_^



Mariachi is a type of music that is Mexican in origin... I think. I know it&#39;s Hispanic, but I&#39;m not sure that it&#39;s specifically Mexican. There&#39;s usually a guitarron (sp?) and a few violinists, maybe some trumpets... whatever.

Originally posted by Kalile Alako@Jul 15 2005, 05:49 AM
and one plays the violin atrociously.


hmm....that&#39;s not a very nice thing to say. For all you know, someone better than you could think you&#39;re atrocious by their standards. :mellow:

Hey now&#33; This is a place to talk about violin, not discriminate about other races. lets keep on topic. :angry:

I know i&#39;m not a moderator, but i created this post, lets try to keep our thoughts of that nature to ourselves please&#33; Imagine if someone said that about you. And you know who this post is directed towards. :mellow: (Kailie Alako)
The way you worded it, came across as a racial comment, to put it simply. :angry:

And no i&#39;m not mexican either.

i am glad that you enjoy playing the violin though, keep at it.

I&#39;m not trying to be racist but it was kind of wired being the only white kid in Mariachi in 6th grade. >.< My high school has a gigantic Mariachi and they&#39;re great&#33; They sound awesome&#33; ^^ Our middle school mariachi was ok. But both had atleast 20 violins or more. ^^

our middle school mariachi was.. like a regular middle school. it was okay, maybe some notes were out of tune. howeverrrrr we had a singer. =X let&#39;s just say, this year, we were thankful there wasn&#39;t one.

hmm....that's not a very nice thing to say. For all you know, someone better than you could think you're atrocious by their standards. :mellow:
Indeed you are correct! Many people do indeed think I'm atrocious. And I can't blame them. :P


Imagine if someone said that about you.
People do... quite often. As well as other unflattering comments about my practicing habits.
I do apologize if I said something out of line... at my school one is not really expected to be polite to others of the same major; we are expected to tell our fellow craftsmen the truth about their skill level so that they may improve themselves. Of course you have to be polite to someone whose major you know nothing about; it would be rude to instruct someone who knows their subject better than you. But among equals, it does not matter; there is no need to indulge oneself in petty games of being rude and taking offense. An "insult" is simply a statement, as is a compliment.


At any rate... the fact that one person is annoying and the other doesn't play very well has no bearing on their race; I didn't mean it that way at all, although I can see how it came across that way. There really weren't many people of Mexican descent in our Mariachi, no more than in Sora's. That's all. I'm afraid I don't generally think in terms of race; it simply doesn't matter... therefore I tend to insult people without meaning to because I don't quite understand how someone could so easily take offense.



And of course that is the problem with flaming someone; ninety nine point nine percent of the time they do not mean to be rude, and overreacting tends to be... less than gracious. ;)

okies! yarp, I see. People in my school always say that people are better than they are usually. The people that they say it to know that they aren't of course because none of us practise! :heh: We are so lazy but we're actually not that bad for some reason.

okies! yarp, I see. People in my school always say that people are better than they are usually. The people that they say it to know that they aren't of course because none of us practise! :heh: We are so lazy but we're actually not that bad for some reason.
That's awesome. Yeah... as soon as I figure out how to upload music clips I will and you can decide for yourself whether I'm as good as I say I am. I may not be... but then again I might be. Dunno. ^_^

Well... I have a recording sample, but I can't upload to this thread because it does not allow file attatchments... hang on.

K, I have a music sample up. It's in this thread here, probably the very last post on the page.
http://forums.ichigos.com/showthread.php?p=144999#post144999
(Yes, my open A string is slightly out of tune... I compensated for it by automatically putting my fingers a little higher on the string, but the open A is icky with the high notes I noticed later. :hey: )

Let's see I've been playing violin for ...eh...6,7 or 8 months. Though I have played viola, my instrument of choice for 7 years now. hee I really only began playing violin 'cause viola isn't really made so to speak for game music or anime even when it is transposed well into alto celf.

After reading about how all your guys' classes work I realize just how off centered my orchestra classes have always been since all the teachers we've had are all band directors and no nothing of string instruments. But hey it's fun so it balances itself out I guess! So I guess the only real props i have when it comes to playing lvl is that I was 1st chair in my county's honor orchestra, but it was over the viola section so...

Kalile Alko I think you sound really good and not atrocious and I know some really atrocious players, but they don't care even though they know what lvl their playing is. It's kinda depressing. Though I had to sit next to those players since I'm a violist...
luckly the teacher moved my section to where we were supposed to be... (he has an odd chair placement system)

Violin is great though, I've learned several songs from games and anime since I started playing.

Why thank you! *blushes and scratches back of head*

Every orchestra needs good viola players, though. Sitting first chair in an honor orchestra is wonderful, no matter the instrument. (Especially since there are so many jokes about viola players... because some violists never practice at all. We need good violists to keep proving the jokes wrong, and force people to write jokes about violinists)

lol Yeah that's true that orchestras do need violas. I think viola jokes are funny, though. lol Gah, I've not praticed viola in about 3 months 'cause my bridge broke! But I finally got one, though now I just need to get my viola back...>.>

Hey, does anyone have any advice for playing Vivaldi's Summer? I don't and won't be taking any lessons so does anyone know what skills should be intensly focused on? I won't have too much time to play violin during the school year since most of my praticing time will be devoted to viola and oboe. Oh, the song's so great!

Kalile, I listened to your playing. I thought it was good, but for some reason it doesn't sound like you put alot of cofidence and strength in your piece. Be brave about the piece and you will play it alot better. Thats what my teacher tells me if I play a piece and she knows that I'm not giving it my all or if I'm just being lazy...lol.

... Ya caught me, Sora. I played that piece as my jury (part of our exams) for orchestra first semester of this last year. I haven't looked at it since, and just pulled it out as a fancy piece that I could dust off and record real quick. :heh:

Actually, I tend to be less confident than I think I should be... my last jury, which determined whether I got into top orchestra or not... well... it really was bad. Which was dumb, because I had so much confidence, all my friends were cheering for me, people who don't give compliments were telling me I was doing "wonderfully"... and then I got up in front of the jury and I could barely stand up. :bleh:


Now it's your guys' turns... if you've got the equipment, it'd be a really good way to play and get feedback, I think. Plus, I want to hear you! Although... we can't attatch files in this forum... :unsure:

Heloo guys, I just noticed that there was a violin section in this forum. Newbie here. Well I love playing the voilin more than the piano... I feel like I could express more my emotions in a violin rather than a piano. Been playing for 8 years now, but I had to stop my lessons last year since I had to focus on my graduation recital in piano. So for about a year now, I have'nt had proper violin lessons since last june but I am finding some good pieces to self study. I think my last piece that I performed was Handel's Violin Sonata in G Major... now my fingers have become rusty I think... lol...

Eheh... I only WISH I was good in violin... (then again, if I calculate the months I've actually had private lessons, it'd be about 3 months...)
Well, I kept switching teachers, because I couldnt' find one that could play in tune! >:O
I need a good teacher...
I'm about level 4 right now.
...I should have learned this instrument earlier... >:( There's just so much to do in it, why did I pick piano first? XD

Wow that took for ever, i looked at every post. well ihave been playing for about a year now and it is so much fun. i actually started out teaching my self how to play. but when i was acually getting taught it was easy. it could site read well but now i can run through songs and acually play music. do any of you have have a different colored violin? mine is black i have to clean it like every time i use it cause the finger prints show up to easy. do you know a good web site to find anime music for the violin cause i really have not had any luck. :mellow: Kalile Alako well done have ever just pick up a sheet of music and played it a couple of times and memorized like half of it? well got to go later!

Heh. Many times, if you're asking what I think you're asking. You have to be able to in an orchestra; you have to watch the conducter as much or more than the music.

I am so tired... just finished the first concert of the two weeks that I'm gone. (I'm not really here, by the way, just pretending. ;) ) It was so much fun, but really hard. We played Symphony No... 1, I think, by Jean Sibelius, and Symphony No 2 by Rachmaninoff. If you've ever seen the sheet music for either of these pieces you will cry with me, especically since we got the music on Monday, seven days ago. :hey:

Symphony No 2 by Rachmaninoff

=( i hate that song. period. =P
we're playing romeo and juliet (the main theme thing, origonal) for our trip to carnagie hall (i can't spell that), and "Planets" or something like that. all the songs are easy but just annoying to play.
Btw, violin players, who here as played prealudium and Allegro =D. thats one of the songs that are required for most people-ok most who study with the good teachers- to pass before the end of 8th grade.
and my friend played it for a solo in 7th =.=. this was two years ago.. i hvae it on cd somewhere if your not familiar with the song. its not that easy.

I don't like it either. I like the Sibelius, though. I love the Planets, too. By Holst, yes?

Anyway, I haven't actually gotten around to Prealudium and Allegro; one freshman played it for her jury, and it sounded not that easy but not that hard either. Actually, it's harder than it is easy, at least in its original format.

Wow that took for ever, i looked at every post. well ihave been playing for about a year now and it is so much fun. i actually started out teaching my self how to play. but when i was acually getting taught it was easy. it could site read well but now i can run through songs and acually play music. do any of you have have a different colored violin? mine is black i have to clean it like every time i use it cause the finger prints show up to easy. do you know a good web site to find anime music for the violin cause i really have not had any luck. :mellow: Kalile Alako well done have ever just pick up a sheet of music and played it a couple of times and memorized like half of it? well got to go later!

My current violin is somewhat colored bloody red, mahoggany or something. But I'd love to have a glass violin, I've seen that in a concert once. The yamaha's new released violin. But it's quite expensive, so I'll have to save some cash. Anyway I wished my violin was a stradivarius... Dreaming here... :heh:

yup, but we're playing the whole thing, which is just anoying to do =/
(mars is such a boring song... )
and for prelaudium, you should learn it.. its like.. a good show off piece that actually sounds good :heh:
another one is the solo from symphanie espagnol.
our concert master (richard zhu.. if any of you went to all eastern you would recognize his name) played it and it was freaking amazing..

*shrug* I'll look for the prelaudium, but I'll probably be learning it on my own since my teacher's doing other stuff. Right now, I'm looking for Zapatiado (I think that's how it's spelled) to practice on my own, though. It's so much fun! Hard, though. Really hard.

My current violin is somewhat colored bloody red, mahoggany or something. But I'd love to have a glass violin, I've seen that in a concert once. The yamaha's new released violin. But it's quite expensive, so I'll have to save some cash. Anyway I wished my violin was a stradivarius... Dreaming here... :heh:

My violin is a stradivarious XD . I got it brand new (way cheaper) so I've had to play into it. I prefer getting them new because I like to think you have to put your soul into it to get the best out of it (you have to play into the strings and violin to get a better sound quality over time). My violin is part of me with that special connection now. Sort of like the soul sword of the Death in Bleach. Sounds kinda soppy but it gets you to take care of your violin in the end.

Wait... you're kidding right? :unsure:

Because I did have someone tell me that they had a Strad in their basement, "in case you want to borrrow it." x_x

Eh......? I have no idea what your basement thing is meant ot symbolise but I really do use a Stradivarius. I wasn't joking.

Wow, that's really cool. :worship:

I just meant that people have told me that they just happen to have a random Stradivarious in their basement. Which is obviously not true, at least not one of the origional Strads. <_<


And... call me obtuse, but how can you have a new Stradivarious? Is there someone who makes them still, using the name?

still it's pretty cool that an-kun's got a strad, i envy him having a really nice violin

dunno I just do have one. I got it a few years ago though. It wasn't cheap. Just my bow itself costs like £200 quid which is like $380-$400 US dollars. The violin is over $1000 dollars I think. I drew a smily face on it by accident when I used it as a backing board so it's pretty unique now :heh: I think there is someone who still makes them though. It says Copy of Antonious Stradivarious in the violin so I have no idea if that means it is or it's not. I only just read the copy of part :heh: I don't know what my violin would be otherwise.

Oh, ok. I thought you had like an actual Antonio Stradivari made violin. I was going to find your address and steal it. ^^ Most violins are copies of the Strads; Strads are literally priceless. You almost can't buy them anymore. He made approximately 1,100 instruments (not just violins) and only about 650 of those instruments survived until now.

Mine is German; it's a Glass (Not as in the material... as in violin maker Freidrich Glass), worth about $3,500 US. And I have a french bow that's worth somewhere around $1000 US. I'm not sure exactly how much, as it belonged to my teacher's father, and he sold it to me for only $600. :coolies:

yeah i was gaping too for a sec thinking he had a original, but yeah there are alot of copies out there

My violin is a stradivarious XD . I got it brand new (way cheaper) so I've had to play into it. I prefer getting them new because I like to think you have to put your soul into it to get the best out of it (you have to play into the strings and violin to get a better sound quality over time). My violin is part of me with that special connection now. Sort of like the soul sword of the Death in Bleach. Sounds kinda soppy but it gets you to take care of your violin in the end.

Are your damn sure, :unsure: I mean, an original stradivarious would cost about $20,000 ++... I mean, really a stradivarius that they only make 10o a year. Maybe it was a stradivarius look alike, because they do have a lot of that around, you know the ones that really are a bargain compared to the original one, maybe about $5000 would be the most expensive for the replicated fake imitations... GOD... if that is the original one then man your parents are loaded... :heh:

The last Stradivarious that was sold... I think it was the last one... was auctioned off at 2.03 MILLION dollars. @_@

<shrugs> maybe it's a copy but it plays damn well to me. I know real stradivarious' are expensive so probably is a copy but it still cost me a lot. No I'm not loaded.

my friends violin teacher was trying to get one of the origonal strad's for 3.5million, but he didn't get it.
it would have been amazing if he did though..
and i hear the imitation ones are still of nice quality, but i haven't heard one for myself yet.

Depends on the imitation; almost every violin you can get is based off of a Strad. They range from $100 student violins to the really expensive ones. Heck, my $3000 violin is based off of a Strad. It's not a copy exactly, but it's still based off of the pattern he used.

i like violin and i can play violin. :lol:

i want to learn Violin...though i think i'll end up quitting because of my age T_T think i'm too old lol

hi 你好！！

r u chinese ? glad to meet u here.

I am a violin player myself. Been playing for a few years. What frustrates me the most I find is the lack of arranged music for the violin. :cry:
I usually end up trying to arrange them myself, but my music theory is pretty weak. I just wish there were more violin music sheets!

i have arranged some popsong for two violins, but i don't know how to upload them.

attach the file to your post and it should upload. You have to click on "go advanced" to see where you can attach it though.

thank you an-kun :lol:

i'll try !
http://www.tlwy.org/bbs/image_img/0509/4327ab3c37426.jpg

i've been playing for...4 yrs going to b 5.
and argh... 6/8 time... that time sig bothers me soo much...
but i guess im... kinda good at it.
but its really fun cause my hs orch teacher is soo hilarious! he speaks spanish out of nowhere and cusses in chinese. and counts us off in jap. really fun in orchestra =]