String Trio

We had a lot of stringy things happening at our house today.  Curly had her end-of-the year concert with Palouse Suzuki Strings.  She was in the Palouse Junior Orchestra this year, and I was pleasantly surprised by the mature sound of the group.  

Tonight after dinner, Hubby and I teamed up to start Abi and Mister on violin.  Mister's piano lessons petered out due to his teacher having several unforeseen circumstances, and with no lessons, his practicing momentum failed.  Instead, he has shown quite a bit more interest in starting violin like his sister, and we decided that Abi could go ahead and begin at the same time.  Since Hubby and I have been through the Pre-Twinkle routine with Curly, we could get the younger two going before we have to start shelling out for lessons.  Unless, of course, we cannot maintain momentum with this either!  Time will tell.

Tonight, though, both of them had a ball learning the parts of the violin and playing the "Twinkle A" rhythm on the open strings.  Seeing the little 1/16th violin brought a bit of nostalgia: here's Curly's first violin picture. So cute. :)