Girls don't play guitar?

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BBC article

purplehez, uglybuffy, toripink, taimatsu et al, what say you?

Comments

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Look in any orchestra and you'll see the women concentrated in the strings (but not bass) and in the woodwinds. I'm not sure why, but it is so. Most will tell you they chose the instrument themselves, too, and not that some one told them they had to.

I started out on violin as a kid. When my school's one viola player graduated, the teacher told all of us who played violin to raise our left hands. He then chose the one with the largest left hand (me) to play viola. I'm very glad he did -- I love it.

I also play guitar. At uni, I played electric guitar in a garage 'new wave' band that had a few club gigs in San Francisco. We weren't very good, though.