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Mr. Becker was the son, having learned the craft from his father, a mostly self-taught craftsman who made his first violin in 1901.
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On display is, not only the first violin ever made in America, but also the bow, made in Hollywood, back in 1940, especially for Albert Einstein.
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Their reaction to the offense was shock: He was removed from the school and given a new violin instructor, whose first demand of his student was that he learn the Mendelssohn concerto first.
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He started playing violin at age 8 and picked up his first Casio keyboard two years later.
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The band, which just released its first album, MTO Volume One, combines the sounds of violin and banjo alongside trombone and slide trumpet.
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But music exams, for example in violin or piano, are to be counted in the tables for the first time.
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"I started playing guitar actually first and quickly realized there were lots of guitar players but hey, no one was doing that on a violin, " he tells Audie Cornish, guest host of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered.
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