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Thank you very much! This is a great compliment to me! I have contacted a violinist, who is an Italian person with the greatest name (haha), to have a trial lesson, in which we will discuss IF the violin is an instrument for me and what the plans will be: just a few lessons or rather months or forever? I will let you know how it turned out. What seems a frustating issue is that I have to begin at the very start. So I can read very difficult music and play it on the saxophone, but not on the violin.

It's always worth learning something new! Just be aware that the music you will be capable of playing, as a beginning student, will probably have little to do with the more advanced music you will be interested in composing. Since you can already read music and have good dexterity and musicality from playing wind instruments, you may learn a little faster than other beginning students, but probably only a little. This will be a long-term learning project. On the other hand, even in the very beginning, having taken some lessons will give you better access to good violinists, and you can ask them for their honest opinion of your scores, and will be better able to understand their comments. And they are more likely to give you careful, detailed feedback if they know you are taking lessons and are serious about composing for strings. Wanting to do this is a good learning opportunity, but it's also a mark of your dedication to composing. You are taking the time to think about where there are gaps in your musical knowledge and trying to fill them. That's definitely a good mindset for a composer. (: