How did you come to the viola?

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Permalink Reply by Ann Marie Cordial on July 27, 2009 at 7:57am

I am an adult beginner. My daughter brought home a viola from school (orchestra), and from the first draw of the bow, it was love at first tone. She didn't want me to play viola because she was in the pre-teen "Oh God please don't let my mother do the same thing I'm doing......" stage. So I waited for several years. 6 years to be exact. I finally couldn't take it anymore and I told my husband I wanted to play an instrument and that was that. A package arrived in the mail one day - it was viola shaped. But it wasn't a viola.

"It's a violin,"my husband said. "It LOOKS like a viola. You can learn to play that." He arranged for me to take lessons from an "experienced teacher", and I waited the longest month of my life to meet him. Turns out he was the conductor of our local community orchestra. Even though I faithfully played my violin repertoire, I just couldn't get the viola out of my head, and when my daughter finally announced in her senior year of high school that she was giving up music, I had my 'green light' to start learning viola.

I love both instruments, but I DO find myself drawn to the stately, deep voice of the viola. I find it hard to put down once I pick it up.

---Ann Marie

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