violist

My sister was a professional violist for a while and did all her auditions behind a screen.

This reminds me of a joke about a violist who finds a magic lamp and asks to become a better musician.

My experience with it as a luthier and conservatory trained violist is limited..but it looks/feels/acts like very thin gauge high-tension fishing line.

As someone who plays in community orchestras, I've never known any violist to have the ability to perceive time.

A violist would probably need to get good enough to compose for viola and for at least the rest of a string quartet.

Also the article reminds us that when younger, Beethoven was a proficient violist.

In contrast, my cousin is a professional violist and he makes $400-$800 per day which is about the same as a mediocre Java programmer.

My sister is a professional violist, so I can't be too complimentary to the instrument.

Also, as a violist, I have to point out that one of Bach's sons said the viola was his favorite instrument.

Become a surgeon, or concert violist, or bush pilot, or any of thousands of challenging jobs that have nothing to do with what you do now.

Isn't that like a orchestra violist asking why top musicians aren't rich, but then saying Justin Timberlake and Rihanna don't count because they aren't orchestra musicians?

This validates my decision not to become a competent violist.

Another book similar in spirit and quality to M&M is "Danilov, the violist" by Vladimir Orlov.

Prodigies on, for example, turntables, are not considered "real musicians" even if they are as much of a genius as the 10 year old violist.

As the parent of a violinist and a violist, I find the role of the teacher for aspects like holding the instrument, to be less like "teaching" and much more like "debugging".

It sounds pretty good[1] and improves the ergonomics of fingering and shifting (though not so much bowing), but it has not seen much adoption because a) it has the "looks funny" factor, and b) it requires the violist who trained on a standard instrument to learn a new technical approach to both bowing and fingering.