By: Anna Wang

The violin is a beautiful instrument that plays magnificently! It has four strings and a bow that you move up and down, perpendicularly to the instrument. Its amber wood shines in the sun and the melodies it plays shine in listeners’ hearts.

When you start playing there is always a journey ahead of you, and you can’t stop! There are millions of people out there who play instruments, but the ones who play the violin know that it takes a lot of patience to get things right!

A violin is one of the most stunning handcrafted instruments out there! It is always a pleasure playing it, even though it is sometimes hard for me to know what patience is really like.

I hope that I can continue to play this instrument and that I will always remember the time and effort it took me to get there.

When many people think of instruments, they think of jazz and band instruments. Few people consider classical music instruments. Which is another good thing about the violin because when audiences hear how well you are playing, they’ll begin to think about how incredible this instrument actually is!

A violin is small (compared to huge, heavy instruments like the tuba and the stand-up bass) so it is really easy to carry around in its case. Also, you can play many different kinds of music on a violin, including country-western, bluegrass, and folk music, as well as classical music. Violinists are always figuring out different things to do with this beautiful instrument.

I hope that the violin takes me places in the future because it’s 100% amazing!