Geoffrey Castle

From Geoffrey Castle's website:

Playing the violin was my idea.
Geoffrey Castle

My folks had nothing to do with it. I was taking drum lessons at the Bloomingdale House of Music on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when I came home one day and told my folks "I want to play the violin." Nobody in the family played the violin; my dad played a little guitar and piano, and my mom played piano, but violin? I was the only one. It caught them by surprise, but to their everlasting credit they got me a fiddle and started me taking lessons. I learned using the "Suzuki" method—with lots of ear training, which really helped me later on...