Can I play the violin AND the cello?
I've been playing the violin for over six years, and at a fairly high level. I played the cello for two years at school in a similar group, so the level wasn't that high. I really enjoyed it there, moderately more than the piano (I play a bit) and also a LITTLE more than the violin… it was such a special feeling.
I actually wanted to continue doing that, but everyone who knows anything about music, like my violin teacher, orchestra leader, the teacher from the group, etc., said that it would ruin my posture on the violin, which is completely different.
I really regret it, but as I said, I've been playing for a long time and we bought my own violin for over €1,000… what should I do?!
(sorry, a lot of text)
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Hi.
I don't know myself with the special case, but I'm always very skeptical when it's called something is broken when you play several instruments.
I would consider the following:
1. What's your height? So, do you want to study the instrument at the university? Or at least as quickly as possible become a technically very safe classic player? Then and only then can it make sense to think about such problems so that you can decide first. Maybe for cello. Listen to your heart.
Two. Generally what level do you want and what music do you want to do later? It is undoubtedly possible to play both cello and violin in a very wide frame, there are also professionals who do this – but they are not a versatile classically trained ensemble player who, so to speak, can do almost all of the notes that they are supposed to be specialized.
By the way, you can still change later if you don't want to build a career.
For over 1000 euros, you can sell quite value-reserving… that's not a covenant for life.
[[Only so- JS Bach still played completely, of course, violin, viola and cello, rather than secondary instruments 😄. This was also common for ordinary city musicians. Only later, with the very slowly growing demands on technically fully trained soloists and disciplined orchestral musicians, the violin and viola is still not a rare combination.]
This is certainly possible. At the same time, there would be a challenge.
No, not really. At worst, it can happen that you learn certain aspects if you don't play both instruments regularly….
Do whatever you like….
A flute also has a different attitude than a piano :)))
Nevertheless, there are people who both play.
I don't think of this fairy tale a la "You're screwing up your approach/your attitude with it." If you can, you can.