Gabrielle Sirmans, 9, couldn't wait to meet her violin. Once she did, she couldn't wait to learn how to play it. "It's music," she said, grinning with pure joy. "So beautiful." Gabrielle and about 19 ...

Professional violinist Laurel Parks, standing, instructs a beginners class for adults called "Drunken Fiddles" in January at Restaurant, Pub & Games, 724 Massachusetts St. Parks offers group classes ...

Frank Polidora always loved violin music, but he never had time to learn the instrument when he was a practicing physician. Jim Depristo was a musician all of his life, but never learned to play the ...

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...

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Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

EAST SPENCER — JaQuan Jackson didn’t have a problem identifying the musical note when asked by music instructor Karen Franks. The 17-year-old easily answered several questions during an afternoon ...