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Tizzy's Skills' Classroom was once again neatly decorated to look like a grand music hall. She had removed the piano and instead there was a small stand, as well as a chair and a beautiful violin, all set up for her student.

Today she'd have a young girl and the child was a combo of kindness and wrath - best to teach her something calming. Otherwise, well lots of things would get broken. But either was fine with the android, really.

Tizzy looked up from where she'd begun arranging music to nod. "Yes, I am Tizzy, I'll be teaching her to play the violin."

The teacher blinked at the mother for a few moments before heading over towards a blank part of the wall. Seemingly out of nowhere she tapped it, causing a door to open so she could pull out a very large easy chair that no normal human should be able to lift this easily. Carrying it over by Nicole, she set it down.

"I apologize - most students do not bring their parents along and I had not provided a space for you to wait. Please have a seat." she seemed like a nice person, anyway, though it was obvious something was not quite right about this Tizzy.

She smiled politely down at Melody next, "You may go take a seat over by that podium."

Tizzy waved a hand, "It was no trouble. Heavy lifting of supplies is something I was built to be able to handle when I was created." she assured Nicole with an airy, offhanded tone as if it was totally normal to be 'built' for things.

Smiling once more, Tizzy took out the bow and told Melody about it carefully, showing her about the different things on it and how to make sure it was done properly. Next she brought out the violin itself, telling the girl about how it was tuned and strung and held.

"Yes. Though why you'd want to do that, I don't know - they're very expensive strings." the android commented, settling the bow on the girl carefully and helping her to position her hands.

"You draw your hand across the strings to make noises." was the first instruction, "And you press down a few of the strings with your other hand to make different noises. Each different sound is called a note. Just try it for a few moments - I suggest your mother plug her ears for this. Experimenting with notes the first few times is odd to hear, do not feel discouraged."

(Please note, I don't know anything about violin besides what I've seen so I'm winging it here.)

Tizzy nodded, "I had warned you. Testing often sounds screechy because you haven't any idea what it's supposed to sound like and you aren't actually playing anything, merely noise."

Carefully, she showed the girl her first note on the scale and how to draw the bow and place her fingers to play it. "Just practice that for a few moments."

"Have you previously played the notes and individually studied exactly how they are supposed to be made and played? Have you heard a person who didn't know how to play performing the violin? If not, you do not actually know what is and is not correct for the activity you are performing." Tizzy explained calmly. "Do not give up merely because everyone you have heard perform the instrument has made it sound pretty - they weren't just pulling a bow across a strings and pushing random ones. They had practiced, they had learned, and they had studied long before that."

Tizzy was calm, showing Melody more notes and praising her on correct behaviors and executions. She had the girl practice the scales a few times before taking the violin away. "That is enough for the moment. Take some time to stand up and rest your arms and get a drink of water. We can continue in a short while."

Tizzy set up a small book with a simple song to start Melody out with while the girl was up and about. When she returned, the android smiled her same odd smile and directed her to sit down. "We'll now be taking a turn with a small actual song. It will take a lot of practice to get it properly, but you may try for some time today and then take the instrument and the books home if you so choose to practice there."