
It’s technically not my first time but it’s like my 5th pick up of it I think (like I’ve only practiced 5 times). I first got the instrument back in 2021 to learn for a school project where we had to pick something to work on, but I was extremely lazy and didn’t practice so I just did what was “good enough” and relied on raw knowledge from having played piano for ~10 years at the time to pass the project since it was basically just completion
But I haven’t touched a violin since then so it’s been 5 years because I was focusing on alto sax (my main instrument) and because I started out as an engineering major before swapping to music. I use violin a lot in my compositions though, and I’ve wanted to learn it for a while but not had a good reason to sink all the time into it until now because I’m a music major