A Beginner Violin-er

Okay everyone, be prepared to cover your ears...I feel a crazy poem (if it can be called that) coming on...

A Beginner Violin-er

An instrument ‘most all have seen

So very soft and nicely clean

Its sound has been

Heard, not by few.

Carrying strings and a bow

Full of tunes, high and low.

The melody seemed to flow

As the wind blew.

Songs that waft ‘round the room,

Not a band nor a boom,

A light in the gloom

To give a clue.

But it doesn’t stop at that,

You’ll take off your hat

And flee far away, at

The moment I tell you.

Not as sweet as you thought

It can be used for nought.

You must know, it ought

Be a weapon too.

With a screech of strings

A note that rings

You can’t guess the things

It might do to you.

The bow like a sword!

A weapon unflawed;

Much regret would be poured

At its slash ‘ere you knew.

Watch out for a scare,

Danger hangs on the air,

Take my warning, Beware!

I am a beginner violin-er

And I am! A few Wednesdays ago I became the owner of a violin, and the owner of a lot less money...heh, that's what happens when your parents say you have to buy it yourself. (Note: I am aware that the correct word is 'violinist' but 'violin-er' sounded cooler.)

We didn't end up getting the violin I mentioned in 'Of Two Sorts of Bows and Several Other Matters'  'cause it turned out to be way too expensive (as in, I don't even have that much money). So we went along to a violin shop and got a new one instead! But I consider that even better as I got to bring it home right away. :)
  

Last Sunday (as in the one a week before yesterday), there was a meeting after church and Sarah and I had both schemed to bring our violins. We figured that since we were both learning, and both agreed that we sounded bad, it'd be all good! So we had a great time playing around together, and some onlisteners (is that a word?) even claimed that we didn't sound awful!
My first lesson was Wednesday, and it was fun. I've got the same teacher as Sarah and she'd loned me her music, so I'd already played it. That gave me a little advantage and it was fairly easy.

Clare took a ton of photos of me on Tuesday, and has been playing with them for half the week. (She is doing so as I speak...er, write.) She took the photos in this post and I believe that she will be doing a post on her blog with more photos sometime. No idea when.

So...I am now learning violin, and having fun doing it too. Before you leave, check out the latest Fragment of If Adventure Comes Your Way. And you could even comment! Please?

Fare Thee Well!