It might also have something to do with the pride you take in (or the appreciation you have of) the skill required to paly the the violin. Plenty of people app

It might also have something to do with the pride you take in (or the appreciation you have of) the skill required to paly the the violin. Plenty of people appreciate guitar hero, for instance, which is far easier to play than a guitar (has a higher layer of abstraction in the terms above, if I understand them correctly). On the other hand, true "masters" of gh love it also because anybody can do something with it, but few can do what they do.