Well, I got the viola back from the shop on Friday and it actually sounds better than I expected considering it's obviously a low-end instrument. I didn't really have trouble with the fingering, either. Now I have to either get out my descant parts or figure out some new tunes that fit within its range (I'm not sure what is meant by "airs" but either we don't have many in our repertoires over here or we don't call them that).