Playing the cheap electric violin.

After I received electric violin, I became crazy about playing this. But, of course the sound was no so great! ^^;)
At first I bought really easy text book for a beginner.


It saids "This book will create your first sound of violin."
The book looked little bit ridicurous, because you know, beginner beginner stuff is always little bit too silly. But for playing violin, we can't ignore this kind of basic thing. Like how to hold your bow(this is pretty difficult for a beginner), how to hold your violin without putting much power...these kind of things.

The book was including many photos and drawings, so it really helped me. (Of course this is written in Japanese though.)

At first I started practice just playing on A string, and after I got used to this I started playing on E string. It was just two strings, but it was not very easy for a beginner. Plus, I had no teacher! Using A and E strings, I became able to play really easy tunes. Like "Butterfly", "Mary's sheep", etc.(You might not know them, sorry)

The electric violin was little bit heavy (compared to normal violins, it was much heavier, I think), it hurt my left sholder pretty often. But playing with amplifier was fun. I sometimes used distortor for electric guitar too. Then sound became like a hard rock!

But my apartment was not very comfprtable to play in the night, because especially my downstair neighbor was complainant middle age woman. (The othe day, when I got drunk and sang songs in the night, she came to complain next morning 7 o'clock!)
So, I was afraid of this happens again, I prefered to play at my company. Because I was living really near by the company just 30 seconds by walk. And I had sometimes night shift to take care of fermentation of Sake. At night shift time, there's nobody in the big factory. And the sake-factory has pretty good sound echoes. So, even though my playing was really cheap, the sound effect of the factory boosts up the sound and makes the player feel so comfortable! It was nice sound system!!

But the thing is, you know we make Japanese-sake in winter. And the factory is always pretty cold, it's about 5 degrees of celcius. So the limit is at most 5 minutes, because my finger got totaly frozen after that!!

I was crazy about playing this cheap electric violin for a while.