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The thing that pushed me over the edge and convinced me to purchase my first violin wasn’t an expected catalyst.

No one talked me into it. Watching and listening to violinists didn’t convince me. Nope — it was the fact that I started writing violin music in my head (because that’s totally normal …) and couldn’t do a single thing about it. The only way to write violin music — to get it out of my head and onto paper, so to speak — was to learn to play the instrument first.

As you can imagine, playing the violin is much harder than humming snippets of melodies into a voice recording app on…

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