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Today is Violin Day!
It getting to find a little more about the violin I came across the Violin Pedagogy: How Did They Learn? Historical Background of the Violin by Dr. Robin Kay Deverich. In Dr. Deverich’s research, she quotes “The Violin and Bow-Origins and Development” by John Dilworth:
“Tracing the origins of the violins is not easy. Instruments played with a bow appear in European carvings and illustrations from around 900 AD, but interpretation is difficult, and the names given for them in texts vary and overlap. Broadly speaking, however, they fall into four categories: the rebec, the medieval and Renaissance fiddle, the lira da braccio and the viol.”
So, this made me think. How many of you are working on something (or multiple things) and you have the end in mind, but don’t know how to get there? Remember everything is a process and sometimes what seems like the correct path, it might lead the wrong way. Next time this happens to me, I will remember that sometimes the beginning does not matter. It is not the past that matters, but the present. I will call this the violin moment. Where what ever route brought me here, it is the present that counts! The origin of the violin does not matter to the beautiful instrument and the notes it plays today.
Go forward, but acknowledge the now, but leave the past behind you.
Tomorrow: National Bouillabaisse Day.
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