Laurel Parks instructs the beginner "Drunken Fiddles" class at Belger Crane Yard Studios. Learning to play an instrument as an adult can be difficult, especially when many beginner level classes are ...

When an expert plays the violin it sounds beautiful and elegant. But when someone is first learning how to play the instrument it can sound like nails on a chalkboard. So if you’re a beginner ...

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The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax More summer essentials I knew the violin was an unforgiving instrument but I had always ...