As of yesterday, Sam is officially a "Twinkler", i.e. learning his Twinkle variations. He's been in "pre-Twinkle" for about a year, and he's very excited about finally playing Twinkle.
In other news, Andrew is about to get a new violin. He's grown out of the 1/4 size that he's been playing. We have a 1/2 size, but it needs new strings, possibly a new bow, and a shoulder rest. We'll have to make a trip to the violin store (here's where we go - www.applebaumviolin.com) sometime this week to get him set up. Andrew is about halfway through book 2, and sounds really great. Teacher Patty is having him do some things that I think are pretty difficult, like playing some of his old songs up or down one note (transposing). But, since Andrew doesn't really know what transposing is, he just figures it out and thinks it's no big deal.
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