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I've played the violin and the viola. If you're a violinist you can get a good sound out of the viola after literally a few minutes of practice. Reading the vio
by cynicalkane 11y ago
I've played the violin and the viola. If you're a violinist you can get a good sound out of the viola after literally a few minutes of practice. Reading the viola clef is strictly less difficult than reading the transposing clefs used by brass and winds.
I don't know what "the double bass is physically dangerous to play" means. If you mean you can get RSI from it, you can do that on any instrument.
- mveety 11y agoWhen the strings on a Bass go, they really go. I've been hurt once or twice from strings breaking.
- analog31 11y agoThat's true. And approaches to each instrument, to avoid injury, have become a pretty mainstream part of teaching. I actually suspect that bass isn't all that endangered, and that it has had somewhat of a resurgence. There were quite a few kids playing bass at the school string concerts that my kids play in. Of course bass has the problem of being every parent's nightmare due to its size. ;-) For me, the endangered-ness of the bass, at the time, was a blessing because it meant that I could serve a role in an ensemble without being a virtuoso.