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Laurel Parks instructs the beginner "Drunken Fiddles" class at Belger Crane Yard Studios. Learning to play an instrument as an adult can be difficult, especially when many beginner level classes are ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When Shelia Sudberry heard there was an opportunity to learn to play the violin for free she jumped at the chance. She has been driving her granddaughter, Jamiyah Dotson, to ...

RICHMOND, Va. — There are other subjects that students can prosper in if they take up learning how to play an instrument — such as math. At St. Andrew's School in Richmond, they believe there is a ...

When an expert plays the violin it sounds beautiful and elegant. But when someone is first learning how to play the instrument it can sound like nails on a chalkboard. So if you’re a beginner ...

Madison Gooch, 10, plucks a string on her violin during a music lesson. She and dozens of others attended the first of a 12-week program offered by the town of East Spencer and the Salisbury Symphony.

An accurate history of how the violin has evolved from 400,000 BC to 2077 AD. Check out "Learning the Violin" on Buttered ...

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If you were fortunate enough to have music education in school, what were those classes like? Did you pick up an instrument—say, a recorder or violin, and learn how to play the scale and simple ...