Violin is one of the hardest instruments to master.

“It involves tilting the bow at a specified angle ““and maintaining the extreme degree of tilt even whilst playing highly expressive and technically difficult” In my opinion, this skill would obviously require practising in order to remember the specific angles for bowing, but tell me, how would this be any different to the wind flow pressures made by a player’s diaphragm in order to achieve higher or lower notes? This would be harder than if not the same to perfecting bowing angles. This is because we are able to see our hands (and would be easier to know what to do) compared to the fact that woodwind players have to use their diaphragm (which we cannot see). From this aspect you have brought up and I have negated, I have shown that woodwind instruments i.e. bassoon, flute etc, would be harder to master. “It implicates thousands of hours of discipline to grounding the mechanics of bow division and bow control,” Isn’t this just the same as having to practice any other technique on any instrument i.e. tonguing – woodwind. “I justify this by saying that it is held up by the pinkie, and if the pinkie is abruptly dropped, the bow will essentially collapse” I thought that you were a violinist. This is wrong because the violin bow is actually supported mainly by the first 3 fingers and thumb- the pinkie would just simply rest on the bow. If I am wrong, please explain how the bow is held up by the pinkie. “The intervals on a violin are not evenly spaced nor does there exist a distinct pattern of spacing’s between the strings. This clearly distinguishes its calibre of difficulty from other instruments such as the piano and the guitar.” Ok, from what you have said, we can logically say that the viola to double bass, which are scaled up versions of the violin (and exactly work the same way); would therefore be harder to master, let alone be able to play it due to their larger sizes meaning that it would also be harder to shift positions and manipulate your fingers when playing faster. I am right in what I have said because the instruments (mentioned above), would be harder to play and therefore, the violin would not be one of the hardest instruments to master due to there being instruments that are harder to play/master. P.s. no instruments in the string family have evenly spaced frets due to the laws of acoustic physics. d = s – (s / (2 ^ (n / 12))) this is how to figure spacing on a guitar “To be able to memorize the positions of the violin with perfection or near perfection can take thousands of focused hours of practice.” How is this any different to memorising the fingerings of a bassoon or the hand positions when playing a French horn? Your sentence is null. Also, the bassoon has over 10 keys just for the thumb. “Co-ordinating two immensely difficult tasks on their own is a huge gauntlet to mastery and even violinists of the highest class in society cannot obtain this.” I am pretty sure that all orchestral instruments and beyond, will require the use of two hands when played. So therefore, mastering any instrument will require perfect co-ordination between hands- not just the violin. My argument: As said before (using the logic that my opponent had used), the violin is apparently the hardest instrument due to the fact that it requires precise hand co-ordination, perfect memory of positions and shifting due to “uneven interval spacing” therefore, the viola, cello and double bass would be harder to master because the technical difficulties above, are amplified due to size. Therefore from this, the violin would not be one of the “hardest” instruments to master because there are a number of instruments that are harder to master. To conclude My opponent has given an interesting argument, but has not fulfilled the BOP and I have negated his points by showing that there are instruments that are/ and would be harder to master (especially according to the logic used by my opponent). I will extend my arguments and sources in the next round.