Post 280082 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
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 (DIR) Post #280069 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:29:32Z
       
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       Why don't I make YouTube violin videos now?Bitch I earned my grade 8 when I was 17. Think I spent the last 27 years PLAYING violin?
       
 (DIR) Post #280070 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:31:05Z
       
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       I meant 7 years but whatever
       
 (DIR) Post #280071 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:32:21Z
       
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       Playing violin SUCKED. Of all the instruments I enjoyed, violin was bottom rung. pretty much every string + wind instrument was preferable.
       
 (DIR) Post #280072 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:33:09Z
       
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       Sure, my highest grade is on violin *by necessity*. I NEEDED to have a grade 8 in something, so I chose the WORST instrument I played.
       
 (DIR) Post #280073 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:34:24Z
       
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       But let's face it: piano is infinitely more interesting. As is accordion. Violin is naught more than the most interesting string instrument, which places it behind percussion and wind, apparently.
       
 (DIR) Post #280074 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:35:14Z
       
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       The piano accordion has such complexity as to be downright mystifying to people, yet has to much capacity for joy.
       
 (DIR) Post #280075 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:35:35Z
       
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       The piano is the most versatile instrument ever, comprising voices new and old.
       
 (DIR) Post #280076 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:36:24Z
       
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       The violin is a gorgeous sound. Its high notes pierce the heavens and its low notes shake  the earth, but it's frankly too boring for most young people to want to learn.
       
 (DIR) Post #280077 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:36:42Z
       
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       And this is from someone who picked up violin at 4 years old
       
 (DIR) Post #280078 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:37:43Z
       
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       Violin is difficult as sin. The notation is spread among the strings to the point where a violinist needs to know their instrument before learning note position. Then they can learn the basics.
       
 (DIR) Post #280079 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:38:10Z
       
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       When I moved from a quarter size to a half size violin I had to relearn everything
       
 (DIR) Post #280080 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:38:32Z
       
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       I may have had a bad teacher. I don't know. But it was difficult as fuck for
       
 (DIR) Post #280081 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:38:55Z
       
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       *me.Anyway. Let your kid learn a keyboard. It's much easier on you.
       
 (DIR) Post #280082 by sporiff@mastodon.technology
       2018-09-29T01:39:24Z
       
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       Let's not mention the fact that kids are garbage on everything they touch and should be kept away from everything.
       
 (DIR) Post #280084 by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
       2018-09-29T01:41:52Z
       
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       @sporiff CAN I GET AN AMEN!?