The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax ...

Frank Polidora always loved violin music, but he never had time to learn the instrument when he was a practicing physician. Jim Depristo was a musician all of his life, but never learned to play the ...

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It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...

EAST SPENCER — JaQuan Jackson didn’t have a problem identifying the musical note when asked by music instructor Karen Franks. The 17-year-old easily answered several questions during an afternoon ...

April 4, 2012 (Houston, Texas) — Patients with Alzheimer's disease with otherwise limited cognitive function who had never before played the violin showed the potential not just to learn to play the ...

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Every Monday and Friday afternoon a handful of kids and their parents slip into a side door of St. Charles Boromeo Church on Detroit's east side. The young people carry violin cases and backpacks and ...

Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...