I must add —from the perspective of one who has plucked and picked blithely since age 4 (let me see, now, how many eons is THAT?...), yet has had zero training at any picked instrument— that these texts are a delight beyond description. Up until, oh, 2-3 years ago, all I had known were standard-issue violin methods/etudes and, of course, the folk/popular repertoire that I imbibed since infancy.
So, let me take this opportunity to mention, once again, how immensely, enormously, profoundly grateful I am to all of you for opening up this whole world to me. Thank you, one and all, friends!
The good news: The Café, as an institution, is most certainly succeeding in its raison d'etre. The not-so-good news: I must, I MUST try to make time to go through this material in a somewhat more, err... studious manner. Oh, well... Sum total is positive.
It is not man that lives but his work. (Ioannis Kapodistrias)
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