| Thanks for all the comments. We've just finished a revisit to Michigan. Tomorrow Oberlin where son will meet Mr. Vitek. They're both wonderful schools and he is honored to have such great choices.
About the violins, he is really lucky that he is currently playing a violin on loan. It is a really fine fiddle - not modern, but not that old. But to buy it would be far beyond our means. He might not get to keep it next year and his own fairly good violin simply pales by comparison. We are not particularly educated about violins generally, but are lucky to have a teacher who is unusually knowledgeable. The teacher says that if he loses this loan, he will have to have a new one. We expect it to cost quite a lot - how much will depend not on its age, but on the ability of a particular violin to maximize my son's gifts and what it happens to cost - then we'll try to come up with the money to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, many of those that sound great seem to be very expensive. Isn't this often true in life? |