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In the 1950 and few decades ahead, due to cinema era, accordion was very very popular amongst bith the musicians and culture amongst the people.

And then came the harmonica, which got so popular that ot could have been brought in shops, often gifted to others, with huge learner market alongside common usage in film scores and music, even being featured in multiple bollywood movies.

And the list goes on, I don't watch old Bollywood movies but due to this culture they promoted many promoted musicians, hobbyist musicians, music and music instruments.

Also, the bollywood promoted the music culture and various instruments a lot.

Harmonica which I just talked about once was so so popular and now its almost extinct in India.

And this is the reason why I hate many other things about how things went since then.

But people don't know many other things about music.

I love orchestras and guess what, they were very popular in that era. But slowly they began to die too.

And this downfall of orchestras and hobbyist culture of music is what is so painful to learn and study about, as someone who plays music, and loves to compose, and follow music, even if not as a professional.

I always complained how nusic culture while seems popular in India due to various societal factor is getting distant from common people and now to realize how a huge era for music declined.

If you noticed a similar post long before, that's because last time every comment and discussion on that thread went way outside the main topic to so I failed to get my answer.

But here, I'll do my best now to keep my question straightforward.

From many teachers' blogs and posts I have read a common thing that adults usually judge their progress, abilities a lot, and usually have analysis-by-paralysis problem, and excessive self-judgement, while young kids don't kind all this as much as adults do?

Is it true or is it just an exaggeration?

Also, last time many people began to discuss about whether they can reach professional-level too, so I want to clarify I just to verify this popular claim about "general perspective" not maximum potential.

Also, I want to consider motivation and combination of factors like amount of self-judgement, comparasion, etc as two separate factors and I am asking about latter.

Where I live, most people rarely pick a sport(not in a way you want to dedicate and inprove) and instrument, so in my life I have literally 0 adult learner to take as sample data to call this claim true or false.

Currently, I have been playing violin for a while and I am really familiar with the western music theory, and can also, read music sheets but I am completely unfamiliar for Indian classical theory.

I want to learn Bansuri but

•Wants to be able to play music scores worldwide, lile soundtracks, movie scores, which are mostly written in staff notation. You can find virtually every globally popular piece in staff notation with its more difficult to find songs for sargam notation, unless song is really really popular.

•Instead of having to relearn music theory, directly focus on playing the flute. If I have to relearn theory then a significant time would be spent again on theoretical parts.

So is there any YT channel I can follow for this?

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I have always imagined of local festivals, school/colege performances and so on had actual musicians playing the instrumentals, or if any party mood or celebration have volunteer instrumental players. But today, pre-recorded songs with speakers is the main norm.

I am not against the use of recorded famous songs with speakers but I am worried about the culture of gathering for music and playing declining, and "being limited to professional concerts and performances only" instead of it being a thing everywhere.

To clarify, many of the times we don't even need to pay extra for such real-musician gatherings. In school/colleges, a music teacher is always hired, so make its purpose useful by training students. In celebrations, jist like there are volunteers for other stuff there can be for music, while for many occasions like small casual parties speaker and stuff still makes more sense, I say it myself.

Even when its not a special occasion, many things like regular religious musical activities, cultural activities that happen regularly, too can this. Also, we can see public spaces where people can volunteer to play at regular periods, without any special occasion.(Slightly different from busking which has greater focus on gathering money as this one is for entirely different purpose).

While many may orchestras, concerts, operas and local hands still have these, but that's not enough and currently these things are mostly limited to professional or semi-professional lives, but wouldn't it be ideal if it was a part of daily life, outside of them

Also, many may also say in their region its still but still its not everyone, especially in compact and tightly packed urban areas

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I'm planning to buy a new violin in just few months from now on, slightly more expensive than my current one. But I just found out few things from internet that is concerning me.

Since my new violin would have a slightly different weight, and my bow too would have different weight and hair, I'm concerned to due to being used to my old violin, I may struggle terribly on new violin and even may have to go through the stage "completely new" beginners have to go through when it comes to violin hold, and bowing

So anyone who have played for a long time and switched violin and bows, how long did it take you to adapt, how close was your adapting phase similar to a beginner's curve?

I can't say exact exact time period I've been playing for, because in past before I recently began to play regularly, it was quite discrete or discontinuous. But I can play pieces that go between pieces too complex and pieces too simple, can do arm vibrato, and shift to some higher positions, though not entire fingerboard till 16th position.

I had a teacher in the past but due to many reasons I was unable to continue and have been planning to continue later. Currently, I can play pieces of the level I had improved till that.

Currently, I'm very comfortable with my current one, so much that even if I intentionally hold bow improperly for fun and casually bow, my right hand, wrist and arm adapt "immediately" that even with completely wrong hold I produce decent tone, and in terns of hold, I can comfortably hold my violin just with my chold and shoulder in different postures, switch postures while holding, and even when I'm casually jist holding it, I can tilt it to extreme angles bith horizontally and vertically and very confidently have control to not let it fall.

Please, clarify my concern about how long does it take to adapt to new violin+bow

So I've been playing violin for a while, and just stumbled around the internet that violin can reach from 80-90 dbs upto even hundred. In fact, I took my violin and checked its sound using a software to verify and did a long bow on open string and it peaked around 100 dbs, and when I got closer to bridge, increased pressure to try to make loudest possible sound to see how loud it can go it peaked around 110 to 111 db, which really scared me. I checked the internet to realize that left hearing loss is a real danger, and I've been playing such loud sound, where my left ear was only inches away from the sound.

So, many of you here may be orchestral musicians and at least the ones playing for decades. Do you feel difference in your left ear, and what do you do generally about such loudness+closeness of left ear?

So basically, I learnt to play all notes but have a problem. I have cannot switch octaves have as I can do blowing for only the octave, with normal, natural blowing speed(I don't know if its middle octave or lower octave but only thing I know is that this octave has natural blowing that I first learnt).

I really have problems switching to higher octaves because what happens is when I decrease the size of embouchure formed by my lips to increase pressure, the sound of notes no longer comes, and at nest I can only get a shrill sound.

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?

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Indian flute, is actually very good for various treble music, and in various occasions I really think that for most school and college annual functions and other festive celebrations flute is a wonderful instrument.

What do you think is that reason still it failed to become a mainstream school instrument?