Jake, i started to play the flute at 15 (im 17 currently). and my teacher believes i can succeed no matter what happens. She says that i am the best flautist in the school and what? i only started!!

All i can say is, eventho im not a string player, anyone can suceed if you are really into your intrument and you practise it often. thats what i did.

Dont listen to your parents or anyone else. Believe in yourself.

Just keep practicing . I started when i was nine. Now i am ten and i can play the stuff high school players play.

Just keep practicing . I started when i was nine. Now i am ten and i can play the stuff high school players play.

Hi. I don`t think 14 is too old. I`m in my 40`s and I`m going to give it a go. Good luck.

Well I just had to chime in with my 2 cents worth. I played for 6 years in grade school and middle school then gave up the violin. (Bad Mistake) I have been telling my wife that I want to pick it up again since I returned from Iraq. Funny how a war will make you get to doing the things you want to do. Anyway, she bought me a violin for my birthday and I am off to the local music store to schedule some training time. AWESOME!!!!

i started playing when i was 10 and i am 14 too now. its a lot of fun to play the violin. AND if you go to volkweins they are pretty cheap to buy, you just have to rent it and the money goes towards buying one.(never buy on made by a machine)
OH and the violin a semi-simple instrument to learn its good thing to take up specialy if ya likes to perform for people!

oh-and by the way your orchestra teachers on crack becuase fideling is a style of playing the violin not a different instrument...

My daughter is 10 and has been playing for a year. She loves it and is having tremendous success with it.

Try 50. I`ve been playing for a year now, and I really enjoy it. I think I have to work a little harder at it just because I don`t learn as fast as I used to, but I get a real kick out of it when my kids or husband says, hey, I recognize that, or hey, that sounds good.

I started the violin when I was 14, now i`m 15 and I am extremely good (not the best)

I`m interested that this thread was started by "Jake" in October of 2002. So..... what happened, Jake? Are you still around? Do you play fiddle now? I hope so!!! ANY age is the time to start playing music.. and having fun with it! I teach a lot of adult beginning fiddle workshops and love seeing folks of all ages learning to fiddle. Message to everyone... go for it!
Happy Fiddling
Katie
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