Take time to listen

You know the other day I was thinking about the violin....how it's so very different from the guitar or any other instrument, really.  See, a guitar has these bars across it's neck and a violin doesn't. 

I asked my violin teacher why this is and his reply was "the bars help the guitarist know where the notes are and a violin is an instrument you have to train your ear to hear where the sound is. It really is a beautiful instrument."  It can also be added to what he said is that along with the listening....the feeling where my finger positions are...how my hand is positioned against the neck of the violin.  A being aware of my surroundings.

I so commend the guitarist for playing!!  I think the frets make it more difficult for the fingers...one has to have a stronger hand as I believe the frets add a resistance against pressing the string down. I've tried it....and I'm staying with the violin :)

A piano, the player must use both their hands to create the notes....and play possibly ten notes at once!!!  I don't think the violin is able to do that :)  Again, I've tried it....and to me, it's like learning to drive a stick shift.....it would take a LONG time to get my mind to coordinate each hand to do what it was supposed to.  Pulling the bow across the strings is much easier to me.

There are sooooo many other instruments out there....ones I haven't tried to play....but they are all so very important!  Even the garbage cans are now an instrument!!  They are fun to listen to!!  Each instrument makes music.  Together they are an orchestra!!  Can you imagine if there was only one instrument and could only play one sound?  Ugck!!

In the same way, I praise God for our differences!! And the fact that there are Zillions more different people through life than there will ever be instruments. And each one of them has been, are, and will be different :)
All I have to say right now is "Let's make some MUSIC!"