violin

"I love playing the tumpet, but I grabbed a violin and it sounded like a cat dying.

You wouldn't admit you 'enjoyed playing violin' in your spare time unless you were a maestro.

You know, the same reason someone might write a compiler, build a violin, cook a casserole, go jogging?

One of them says they should accept jews for every opening because they make perfect violinists.

They were trying so hard to be perfect, forced by their parents to take violin and piano lessons, score perfect SAT scores, get into Harvard and MIT.

If I found you a dozen extra violin-playing science hopefuls with high scores and GPAs who were black you and I both know exactly what would happen.

Then there is the stereotype of the high grades, the good schools, the countless extracurriculars, at least piano or violin, and so forth.

I'm not a violin player, but to me the allure of hearing a violinist play on a 300 year old violin isn't that it's the best sounding violin on the planet.

" What happens, subconsciously, is that the stereotypical asian profile is "high scoring, high gpa, piano/violin, tennis, math/science.

In a violin, viola, or cello, the bow has uneven tension along its length, allowing for many different articulations - it also means that when you start the bowstroke at the top or bottom of the bow, the hair tension is higher at those points.