I don't think so.

If you want to play violin, I think it's best to start there. Just get a teacher and learn how to play.

Guitar is easier to get your first clear sounding note out of. It's not easier to become proficient on guitar than violin. The guitar can provide simple rhythum and chords for a voice lead. Learning guitar will help you very little with your goal of learning violin.

Most large book stores sell a begining music book combined with a recorder (a type of flute) for only $12 or so. I suggest you buy the recorder/book combo and play around for a few hours. You will learn the basics of reading music and some music theory that will be directly applicable to your eventual study of violin.

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"The guitar can provide simple rhythum and chords for a voice lead. "

Should continue as "The guitar can also be the sole instrument played in a very complex piece."

Well if it's the violin you want to play, then I'd reccommend going straight to violin. Learning the guitar first probably won't help you with much other than reading music, which you'd learn anyway when you learn the violin.

It might seem like the guitar might be easier to play, but it's probably just as complex. Plus the fact, if you learn guitar, it'll delay you're learning of the violin. And of course learning one instrument first would make a second instrument slightly easier to learn, but that's really all down to the music reading side of things. All instruments are different.

I suggest you get a violin teacher, and get started on that without playing the guitar first. It'll probably be you're best bet. I have a friend who plays the Violin and Viola, and she then taught herself guitar and piano, but it took quite a while I think.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do. Both instruments are great!!

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I'd stick with the violin. I play violin and i love it. It sounds pretty awful at first but you just have to keep at it and you'll get better. Start out with a teacher. Its a hard instrument and i wouldn't recomend teaching it to yourself.
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