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Originally Posted by Gabby84
The 5 string intrigued me. I fell in love with the viola when i was 9. I heard it’s notes and knew I had to learn. How was the learning curve with the 5 and the 10?
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5 string viola is just a longer scale violin with a low C. All I had to "learn" is the muscle memory of the notes being spaced out more than on a violin. I'm not very good at reading alto clef yet (grew up sightreading treble) but I mostly play folk, bluegrass, Americana by ear anyway. The 10 string Hardanger viola is a 5 string viola with 5 sympathetic understrings, so fingering is the same as my other 5 strings. There are dozens of different Hardanger tunings in use, but for now I'm in standard.