Irminsul wrote:What pisses me off is that musicians already have a rep as being somewhat undereducated, or uneducated. It's hard to fight that with constant examples coming in to the contrary!
Irminsul wrote:Oh, I wish. My hands are too big. I have pianist hands (13 note span). Violinists do best with small hands. Thanks for the thought, though.
I can see why it would bother you, musicians do get smashed for being stupid, mainly people who play guitar though. I could not picture looking at a violinist as dumb for instance. So yeah, when people talk that way it certainly does not help.
On the other note, I do not know if my hands would be too big for a violin. The farthest I can stretch on guitar would probably be, well in fret numbers, from 7 to 13. I am working on making it 7-14. So, I am not sure, but I would like to try the violin someday myself. It is a beautiful instrument. I love the sounds it can emit. Look at Drops of Jupiter by Train or Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve. By the way, I saw Train live down here at Sunfest, not bad.
Anyhow, I am looking into learning the oud or maybe the sitar (As far as Middle Eastern goes). But for typical Western society instruments, I am going for piano and bass guitar.
Peace out, GuitarAnatomy.
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