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I have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard some version of: "Oh, you teach violin? How do you cope with that sound?!" or "I guess it gets better after the first few years, right?" - or, worse ...

First, Dumas attended two lessons to learn more about the discipline. "It was just amazing to see a 3-year-old playing the violin," she said. The fact that Lauren, now 13 and a seventh-grader at ...