#violin

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #violin #music

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. ↗

— George Duke

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I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#house #i #long #long time #need

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#goal #guess #i #just #really

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#guess #i #started #violin #well

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' ↗

— Alison Krauss

#carolina #dance #fiddle #fiddler #got

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#baritone #clarinet #elements #even #flute

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. ↗

— Edward Lear

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