Summer term 2019 music

His teacher sounds wonderful, Neleus - great attitude!
Could he use a stress ball or similar to gently work his hand muscles?

Thanks Lotsofmilk and Zak.

It's actually not his bow hand but the left hand - the palm and the middle and ring fingers. Unfortunately, it'll probably take a while for him to be able to hold something without pain.... I assume there are many right-hand exercises he could do but we are lacking imagination here! Any idea??

Thanks piccolo. DS gets plenty of music at school so we try to let him fulfil his other interests at home as much as we can. Both his piano and violin teachers encourage him to go outside and have fun too. He spoke to his violin teacher on the phone last week and the first question he was asked was if he went outside and played football earlier (it was a sunny day). Not all the teachers are like that so we are very grateful to have such a teacher who seems to understand a child like DS.

SummerComing, IME, jd is usually very understanding of year 6 pupils missing lessons for 11+. They handle this problem every year so are used it! It's pretty unreasonable not to let year 6 DCs take 11+ exams anyway.

Oh no Neleus- hope his hand recovers quickly 😬😊

Sorry to hear about the injury neleus hopefully he will bounce back quickly

Congratulations to raspberry's DS2! Sorry to hear thatNeleus. Hope he is getting well soon!
My DC will join in JD in September. I understand the course will take place on Saturdays. However DC will take 11+ exams from September and most of the exams will be on Saturdays, will JD allow DC to do that? How should I communicate with JD if It happens? Any one has similar experience? Any advice much appreciated! Thank you!

Congratulations to raspberry's DS - wonderful!
Commiserations, Neleus. How long will his hand be out of action for? Longer than a week? I guess injury is always a risk, but it's great he is enjoying other activities, after what I'm sure must have been a pretty intense term at school.

Wonderful news, raspberry!

We have not so wonderful news here. DS had a medical treatment last week so he has to avoid certain activities such as swimming for 3 weeks or so, which is a bit nuisance as he usually swims 2-3 times a week. But it was a planned treatment so we knew what it would be like after the treatment so we are OK with it.

However, DS came back from his golf holiday with a hand injury last night. Luckily it's nothing serious but at the moment he can't even hold a paper, never mind a bow!

I remember reading frequent injuries on this thread. Mine is definitely the one who gets injured every school holiday...

Well done Raspberry DS2! And lovely to hear the update on DS1

Jolly well done, raspberry’s DS2! And it’s good to hear DS1 is throwing himself into things both academic and musical.

Raspberry that's great news! And good luck to DS2 with his GCSEs!

Very inspiring stories from the parents of older children, thank you .

Well done to your DS raspberry great news! 🙂
Also agree with everyone’s hopes that their children simply enjoy their playing .. I didn’t study music but had a fantastic time playing in brass bands through university and now sing in a choir. That was really my only aim with the kids’ music lessons... DD is taking it more seriously than I did but that’s very much her choice.

I've mentioned before on these threads about my brass playing DS1 who is having whale of a time at uni playing in multiple groups. He is going back early next week to play in the uni musical. He isn't studying music. His first brass teacher, from when he was 8, counts him as much as one of her successes as those who have gone on to Conservatoire.

Congratulations on all the many lovely exam results and audition succeses on the thread! I'll add my own, if I may. DS2 has a place at JD for September.

The main thing for him now this term will be GCSEs!!

What I passionately want for my children is that they still get joy from music in their 40s, 50s etc throughout their whole life, whether playing for fun, listening, learning, teaching, performing, whatever they choose. I'll be happy I've done a good job then. Music has brought me great joy and many opportunities in church and community choirs, school/ regional/ uni/ community orchestras, trips abroad, been on TV, loads of friends. I want to still be doing this for years to come. (I have grade 2 recorder btw- I think, can't remember if I did any others!)

You get a discount if you buy 5 strings at Chimes.

Thank you folk and neleus
Chimes looks like it could work well

YES Taggie!!! We need to figure out the prior odds.... 😘

Love it @thirdfiddle . It seems like a Bayesian problem at heart... ‘what is the probability of becoming a professional musician, given that you have grade 8?’. This is a nice explanation en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

But, when you apply the reasoning to the small group who have grade 8 at a very young age (say, 7 or 8), it becomes an extremes calculation, which might might be more difficult. I’ll give it some thought. Nice bank holiday problem

Alternatively you can order online and get a next day delivery to home or where you stay in London?

I think what piccolo wanted to say was we all develop differently so no need to feel discouraged nor compete against somebody else. Keep focusing on your own music learning, and don't get disturbed by the thought of you must reach X and Y by 10, 14, 18 etc. Music isn't and shouldn't be a race. It's a marathon. Think of The Rabbit and The Turtle. You never know who will reach the personal goal eventually.

Mending, I can list the shop name such as Chimes, Stringers, JP Guivier and more. But perhaps it's easier if you google a music shop near where you go or stay and you may find one in a few mins walk. Luckily getting strings in London isn't that hard.

chimesmusic.com/latest/kensington-chimes/

Chimes near RCM??