I think the violin has such a beautiful sound when it is played by someone experienced. Do you enjoy the violin?
I do. And I love that it is now played in lots of non-Western music cultures, like that of India and Iran. Do you play?
I don't, my daughter plays the trumpet, which isn't quite the same lol. But she does quite well for 15. Do you play?
Not me, I'm useless when it comes to musical instruments. As violins are so important in a huge variety of types of music I should get to know more about them.
Yes, they really are part of music in many ways. I actually remember it most from listening and watching Charles Ingalls play it on "Little House on the Prairie" lol. He did beautifully working the violin's strings.
strings, though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow (col legno). 
Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from chamber music to orchestras) and as solo instruments and in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music and in jazz. Electric violins with solid bodies and piezoelectric pickups are used
minutes. I played it for Elaine and I said, 'Can I write this? Do you think this is too weird?'
I was sitting at a picnic table when I wrote it, maybe around this time last year. I have to give the nod to Sympathy for the Devil, because I came to the conclusion that probably Mr. Bellows was the devil.
(The song ends with elderly people talking about their lives when a bittersweet violin plays underneath.) I told Rick, a guy who works