I'd say more like 7 and 3 than 3 and 7. Still, the violin has always seemed strange to me. It doesn't help at all with the established 12-tone scale, or with

I'd say more like 7 and 3 than 3 and 7. Still, the violin has always seemed strange to me. It doesn't help at all with the established 12-tone scale, or with polyphony or chords, and it sounds unbearable in a beginner's hands. Sadistic parents allocate about as much skill to it as to the piano, but it just seems like a bad instrument for producing western music.