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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1instrument firmly, I could play this little air with tolerable satisfaction to myself, whatever it might have been to others; and when a few months had elapsed I had made what is generally termed "considerable progress." But yet I had only this little melody of eight bars. It was pretty, it was easy, and it was so simple that it really required no accompaniment. At this juncture a friend, who was a violinist, happened to call at our house, and whilst in the corridor he heard the sound of my music upstairs. Turning to my parents, he said, "If your child is going to learn music, you should have him taught the violin, for he has got something, naturally, which we violinists have to work for, sometimes for years."
3However, my mother had decided upon having me taught the piano by a lady from the Royal Academy of Music, whom she was befriending at that time. The piano lessons went very well so long as the right hand only was engaged; but when it came to studying the bass clef, and using the left hand at the same time as the right, it proved too much for my feelings; and I hugged my violin with more tenderness than ever. I did more; I ran out into the open country, far across the flowery meadows, whenever the hour of the piano lesson approached, and stayed there till it was too late and the music mistress had gone! This convinced my dear parents that the piano was of no use; so, when
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