Violinstreet...

[arielpiano]

... for a change:

[emill]

NICE!!!   you are one versatile and extremely talented musician!!!

[rachfan]

Wow, Ariel, that was great!  You're a very accomplished musician!  At the music school do you study violin as your "second instrument"?  If so, you're very proficient at both.  I remember when I was about 12, my parents wanted me to study violin as well as piano, which I had started three or four years earlier.  As it turned out, my love of the piano was so strong that the violin become less than "second fiddle" to me, no pun intended.  So I was allowed to drop it, but not before appreciating what a difficult instrument it is to play well.  Keep up the good work!  Two instruments give you more options in your life of music.

David

[arielpiano]

Thanks for the encouraging words, David. I sometimes feel that the violin is as important to me as the piano, but I haven't been able to achieve the same command as on the piano. The violin requires a lot more work, and you must practice scales, which I managed never to do on the piano. But I still hope that one day I'll be able to play both at the same level.
Ariel

[pianowolfi]

It's very beautiful, Ariel!
 
I think there's a major difference between playing scales on a keyboard instrument and doing so on a string instrument. On the string instrument you can live with every single note as long as you want, you can change it, you can do vibrato, you can do cresc.-dim. you can really live within the single tone, whereas when we play scales on the piano we easily get into the mere "velocity" mood. We have seemingly not much reason to stay with one tone/note on a keyboard instrument. I used to play the cello for quite a while when I was young, and it really made a fundamental difference!