I made up an imaginary illness that I tell my students about. We have all seen those students in our classes who barely make a sound and play as if they fear they will be heard. I tell students to be on the lookout for symptoms of orchestra-itis and we talk about a cure. Orchestra-itis is a fear to be heard and an attempt to hide with symptoms being poor position, crooked bows and abnormally soft playing. One of my students just made a website about our imaginary orchestra illness and I got quite a kick out of reading it. Here's the link:
https://sites.google.com/site/orchestraitis/
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