A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a
violin; what else does a man need to be happy? -- Albert Einstein
Ever since 8th grade I was passionate about learning violin; there were two reasons for that. First, one of my inspirations, Sherlock Holmes played violin to facilitate thought; and secondly, violin is considered the most melodious of all instruments. Unfortunately, however, I could not get a proper instructor in my locality hitherto. But recently, I came across Mr. Shirish Bhalerao who is a violin instructor and a professional violinist. He is also the chief violinist at the A.I.R (All India Radio)! I don’t know why I couldn’t find him all these years?!
Anyways, now that he was available I asked my CAS co-ordinator
Ms. Vijayalaxmi if leaning violin would be a valid CAS activity. She said it
would come under Creativity part of CAS and also consented my undertaking of
it. The activity shall a long term activity but will account for 8 CAS
Creativity hours for documentation. I then approached Mr. Bhalerao for he will
also be my activity supervisor. In doing so, I ran into an extremely
bewildering epiphany; it turned out that he did he did not accept money in
return of what he taught! I was so surprised to hear that! I couldn’t express
my happiness at that moment!
Today was my first day, my excitement was inexplicable!
Although I had seen people playing violin before – my elder sister is really
good at it – I had no idea how difficult it was actually. It was a shocking
challenge. It took me a lot of time just to hold the bow correctly, and then
there were the four strings which in Indian Classical Music represent the Saa
and Pa (C & G) of two octaves which are G, D, A and E otherwise. First I was asked to move my bow freely over
the strings and play open chords; they call it bowing. It sure was a challenge
to get that first bit right but I was all prepared for it, I didn’t want to
miss this opportunity. Today it was all about that, and based on this speed I
could anticipate how long it was going to take to play like Sherlock. Learning
a skill so exquisite is naturally a task demanding patience and determination,
and I am ready to give plentiful of both.
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