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Dear Beth: I just wanted you to know how happy I am that I found your website!!! i am a 63-year-old piano teacher by profession. For the last year plus I have been helping my five-year-old grandson who lives with me to learn violin through the Suzuki method. I had him start partly out of my own curiosity for the method. Because I practice with him every day ( and I suppose it does not hurt that I am also a musician !!) I found that everything he can play, I can also play! I am at his level!!!
I had been thinking recently I might take lessons myself, having now developed an interest in learning the instrument. Then, i found your website a couple days ago, and, while I won’t rule out in-person lessons in the future to make sure I am acquiring correct technique, your instructions are so detailed, broken down so carefully and so systematically, I think that for the time being, this fits my current needs more than private lessons. I confess to having jumped ahead, just to see how certain things I had had curiosity about (like vibrato) were explained. But now, I am committed to moving through using your sequence.
What a big but tremendously useful project you have undertaken. i would describe it as the Khan Academy of violin!!!
So, while I am waiting for my shoulder rest to arrive and am no farther than that, I wanted to thank you in advance for what I can tell will be very useful. I am so happy I found you!!!!

Martha Yazhari