14 September

Was listening to a violin concerto this morning on the way to work, and thought, why did we bother with electric guitars? The violin is so much better in terms of tone, sustain, harmonics, and ease of fingerboard use. Yeh it doesn't play chords, but just in terms of playing a melody or a lead line, it was an astonishing invention. The quality and variety of tone and the huge continuum of expressive emotion it can produce. And using a bow gives you that infinite sustain, at any volume, or the capacity to modulate that volume in real-time in hugely expressive ways. I may even buy one.