I just went to my 8-year-old daughter's Suzuki violin recital. She was wonderful, of course. She even played a little tune she had written! (So the list of composers on the program included Suzuki, Mozart, Haydn, Bach...and Cohen!)

She's been playing a 1/4 size violin, and her teacher says she's just about big enough to move up to a 1/2 size. I would like to buy one for her, but it just occurred to me that somebody out in Mudcatland might have a decent 1/2 size violin and bow that their kid has outgrown and is just sitting on the shelf in the closet, wondering, "Isn't anybody ever going to play me again?"

Maybe we can work something out?

Aloha,
Mark