I am last violinist in our community orchestra during Fall, Winter and early Spring. Then I switch to Fiddle and try to play old time and am currently working on Celtic. I'm not very good. I started playing after retiring and did not/do not take lessons. I already knew how to read music from being a high school/college bassoonist. Bassoons are too expensive so I went for the fiddle and it is so much fun to play. I can play by ear or by reading music. I never could play bassoon by ear.
Our orchestra is an Anybody Can Join type and is geared more to having fun together. Nobody much comes to our concerts. In fact, a major portion of the audience leaves after the choir is done performing. But it has improved my fiddling.
I just started learning Ukulele and a group of players had just started to meet once a week to play together when the virus stuff began......Dammmit. I can fit both my fiddle and ukulele in my home made bike panniers. There, I've worked bike stuff into this thread. After playing ukes, we'd switch to playing Celtic music and I'd get out my fiddle.
Our orchestra is an Anybody Can Join type and is geared more to having fun together. Nobody much comes to our concerts. In fact, a major portion of the audience leaves after the choir is done performing. But it has improved my fiddling.
I just started learning Ukulele and a group of players had just started to meet once a week to play together when the virus stuff began......Dammmit. I can fit both my fiddle and ukulele in my home made bike panniers. There, I've worked bike stuff into this thread. After playing ukes, we'd switch to playing Celtic music and I'd get out my fiddle.
