#photoops

Violin and other string instruments (but especially violin and viola, because of the rather awkward position) are very hard to learn, but are a lot of fun when you do get things to sound good. And when you do sound good, you're used to sounding awful so you tend to play quietly and without confidence. It took me way longer just to stop playing timidly than it did for me to sound well.

The nice thing about learning strings, though, is that it's really transferable to other string instruments. You learn one and it makes learning another much easier, at least to me it seems to. I'd love to play cello or violin but those things are so expensive

Cellos are sexy as hell, though