fiddlin' fools

Many years ago Faith saw a violin being played for the first time and said to me, "Mommy, I've never heard it's voice before!" With all the wonder and excitement of a child and it's a moment I'll never forget. To hear her describe it as having a voice reaffirmed to me she was a music lover! About a year ago a dear friend of our family gave Faith a violin as she knew Faith would put it to good use, mind you this violin is a treasured family heirloom not to mention over 250 years old. When I saw the date stamped inside I nearly choked! It's not replaceable!!! But Faith know all this and was told by the owner, use it and play it and she treats it with such respect. That Violin is just a bit too large for her to practice on right now but at the rate she's growing she'll have grown into and out if it shortly. So for now she's on a 1/2 size and graciously allowed me to try to learn on the older one. I did find a woman to teach her last year and she took lessons for a while; but it didn't work out for this year, for a variety of reasons. So we decided to give it a try on our own, she was given a book with cd and had many years of piano lessons to help guide us. So we're off, below are pictures of out first go at it, solo. We're each doing the first set of scales.