u/oldmcfarmface

Bought a violin and it arrived today! Took me over a half hour to tune the dang thing. Hoping that gets easier with practice! The digital tuner was no help but I found a great free app that helped a lot.

Sooo… I guess now I just practice form and start developing muscle memory? I’ve been wanting to learn an instrument my whole life and nothing has ever stuck but I’ve never been this determined before. I WILL be a fiddler. I’ll even go on the roof if I have to!

Edit to add: I’m looking for a teacher locally even if it’s just for a couple lessons because of expense. I’d like to avoid bad form problems! Thank you everyone!

Edit 2: I have a free consultation with a music teacher in a couple weeks and I’ll be getting a block of 4 lessons at a reasonable price! Thank you all so much for your encouragement and advice!

My (trad) wife does not like confrontation so she vents to me about things rather than bring them up here. I have no problem with confrontation so I’m gonna say it.

Is this a community for people of the trad persuasion or is it a place for single, bitter people to come and talk down to trad wives? It seems like every day there’s a feminist or some bitter old divorcee coming in to talk about why trad is bad and stupid and we are all stupid/abused/abusive.

Can the mod team chime in please? Why is this being tolerated? Should we all go to a working mom’s subreddit and tell them they’re doing it wrong? Or maybe the feminist subreddit to explain what’s wrong with their lifestyle. Oh yeah. They’ll delete the posts because it’s not appropriate.

There. I vented. Can we keep this a space for trad?