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worst things about playing the violin

The 10 worst things about playing the violin

Jacqueline du Pré iconic pictures

Are these the ten best string players ever?

Beethoven string quartets 1

Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor

Leonidas Kavakos Gramophone Awards

Violinist sues repairman for snapping $80k bow

Shinichi Suzuki

Suzuki method founder who lied about education: 'biggest fraud in musical history'

Joshua Bell surprises child busker with violin duet

Joshua Bell

Elephants dancing violin Bach

Elephants dance to a violinist playing Bach

Bach

Liam Neeson

John Williams - Schindler's List

Williams

Kreutzer Stradivarius violin

$10million Stradivarius violin fails to sell at auction

Bach partita Time for Three

Video: violinist plays Bach on runway to protest flight ban

Bach

Kreutzer Stradivarius violin

Stradivarius "in a closet for 25 years" could sell for $10m

Violin

Mozart - Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra

Mozart

Satoko Fukuda

Lost London Underground violin sparks social media campaign

Lipinski stradivarius

Three arrested and Stradivarius recovered after taser theft

Lipinski stradivarius

Stradivarius stolen using taser

yosuke kawasaki

Violinist to oppose $120k Canadian border fine

restaurant red wine

Playing violin for an hour sheds two glasses of wine