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I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn't until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do.

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.