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Jenny O’Connor

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13492 Research Blvd #120-213
Austin , TX , 78750 30° 26' 55.9356" N, 97° 47' 31.8516" W
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’m Jenny O’Connor, violinist and online teacher. Hi! Learning violin as an adult can be tougher than a two-dollar steak. I know, because I learned as an adult too!!! I’m from a small town in Texas where music is for football games. My Dad worked and my Mom stayed home, and we had all we needed, but there wasn’t a lot extra to shell out for lessons and things like that, even if orchestra there was a thing. I heard Irish fiddle on a CD for the first time in Highschool and it stunned me how sad and happy music could sound at the very same time. The first teacher I talked to thought I was there to sign up my kid and told me I was too old. Well, that was embarrassing. I juggled through different teachers in central Texas for a few years. I learned tons of tunes and great things from all of them, but I was frustrated because I still couldn’t play one single tune and have it sound good at all!!!! I decided to get serious, so I had to do a scary thing. I dropped a semester of college to go take lessons with Judy Hyman in the white washed music studio in the tippy top attic of her farm house in upstate New York. I lived with my grandparents and worked at a dairy farm milking 40 cows. I would come out from practicing to join them for Jeopardy glowing blue on the tiny silver TV, and my Grandpa would tease me by imitating an air-bow on his air-fiddle and singing, “Squeak, squeak, squeak! Squeak, squeak, squeak!!!” He was a shining example of the greatest generation, but his jokes would sure sting, man…. ha! One day around then I was at Judy’s looking up into those rafters trying to hold back a flood of tears because I still felt so stuck. I couldn’t even hold it right – the thing is all corners!

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I help adults learn violin with short daily lessons.