well, fun story.
i asked my kids what they wanted to play. my daughter said, violin. so we got her a little 1/8 violin.
my son is a fan of Queen and i let him hear some guitar amps. he actually picked out the ac30 without knowing what an ac30 is. i asked him if he wanted an ac30. he has a guitar already. he said no, i want to play the violin instead.
so we got him a violin. i have quite a bit of different instruments at home. drums, guitars, keyboards, flute. they don't like any of them. now we have 2 violin.
since i want to play with my kids and help them with their instruments, i went to get myself a violin. being born different, i had to find a left handed violin. note that i am ambidextrous. i can write with either hand and etc. but i am 100% a lefty on string string instruments. i remember coming across an old left handed 80 year old strad copy at long and mcquade store in a different province. i called and they said it has been sitting there for a year. looked like a pretty decent quality instrument. its being shipped. they said i can rent it for awhile and return it if i feel it's a piece of crap. they did promise me that it is a quality instrument. so after doing tons of research on violins, it turns out to be a pretty good one I THINK and anything new at that price point will buy me a piece of crap.
so now i have 3 violins in the house all of a sudden.
funny thing is i actually enjoy playing the violin.