making faces while playing violin (or any strings)?

Hey Switch, I'd MUCH rather have flaring nostrils than my bassoon-playing-induced Bloodhound Face :S

Sadly, musos can't always be pretty...

Hafwen x

i are starting to be blisters on my left hand hands from working in the direction of violin and viola. back then, i replaced into playing for college orchestra and making waiting for violin tests on a similar time, so I practiced lots. a variety of circumstances i've got stopped momentarily to alter my place/fingerings/and so on. and observed that the coolest layer of skin on my hands have been crimson and sore, and a few had even come off. i did no longer experience the soreness till I observed it, and then it hurts like h*ll and that i does no longer be waiting to proceed working in the direction of. i've got additionally gotten blisters from playing the harp - no longer lots on my suitable hand, yet my left. My poor left hand, lol (violin, viola, and harp). there replaced right into a chew of song which replaced into meant to sound grand, so it had various loud octaves interior the left hand. And harpists will understand that the backside strings of a pedal harp (which replaced into what I performed) are wires. Thick metallic wires. After something like a 2h practice consultation, I felt the stinging soreness and appeared down at my hands to make certain blisters on the third and 4th hands (quite the 4th). i could no longer play for the subsequent 2 days :( i'm fortunate sufficient, even even with the undeniable fact that, to no longer have suffered any injuries from the piano (my significant tool) in my 14 years of playing. i assume I the two practice so effectively that I in no way ended up hurting my hands (as nicely getting drained), or my instructor would desire to have taught me all the main suitable techniques. *Oh, different than getting my hands chafted uncooked from working in the direction of glissandos on the piano... the way my hands are outfitted are such that I in simple terms have little or no nail while in comparison with flesh on them. That explains why I look somewhat companies to bleeding each and each time I do glissandos. Ouch.

I usually bob my head when playing the violin but this is a habit.I do that to keep time.This habit came from playing the piano where my hands and feet are occupied so what am I supposed to do?

My violin teacher keeps trying to prevent me from bobbing my head though...He says that its distracting but does admit that I somewhat lose control over tempo when I'm not doing it.

For years, whenever I played a difficult passage on the piano, I would suck in my right cheek and bite down on it. I looked like a fish. My mom kept on me about it. One day I was watching a piano competition on the TV, and this one young lady did exactly the same thing. I thought I was the only one. I yelled for my mom to come look -- but she never did it again -- of course.

Life.

Cheers,

G.

I couldn't believe the first time I ever saw myself on video playing the guitar: I stand bow-legged (toes pointing inwards)!!! The weird thing ism my Mother told me that I was born bow-legged and had to wear braces on my legs the first year of my life. Strange, huh?

This is a common phenomenon to violinists called "rhinoflappoxomy". There is no cure. (and I thought is was yer legs that shook, not yer schnoz!),,Muahaha Muahaha

I'm doing something with my tongue when I play the guitar lol.

usually just wincing lol