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We've moved up to a sixteenth-size violin. The tailpiece on the thirty-second-size cracked, and it has proved impossible to find a repla...

I'm wondering where we went so wrong last fall. I didn't appreciate how hard it would be to get a home routine established, and I gu...

We are developing quite a routine the past week or two! We are finally, for about the first time ever, managing to practise more than once o...

Well, we've started again. Four days and counting. It is a struggle, but we are managing a short practise every day. And I have stopped ...

I've told Erin that when she is four we will start working at the violin again. (She turns four in less than two weeks.) I am committed ...

I am trying to completely re-think both my motivation and my approach in teaching Erin. If I were to give myself advice at this stage I woul...

It hasn't continued. I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to actually establish a routine of practising after the daily less...

Erin's grandma has been visiting, and she is a Suzuki violin teacher too, one with lots of experience and expertise. Erin has been havin...

We have just returned from our first Suzuki Institute together. Erin is 3 and a half, and is playing on a tiny thirty-second-size violin (wh...