Un éditorial de The Violinist.com souligne l’importance des espaces de répétition pour les violonistes (et les autres musiciennes et musiciens). Celui-ci accompagne un petit sondage sur les espaces utilisés par les lectrices et lecteurs, dont la tendance au début juin 2022 montre une nette préférence pour « a special corner of my apartment or house »:
« Practice is probably the most important part of learning, progressing and maintaining skills on the violin – or any instrument. But you have to have a place to practice! » (Niles, 2022)
« […] a fancy practice area does not equate to effective practice. I’ve had some pretty effective practice sessions in weird places like empty hotel gym rooms, back rooms in churches, outdoors at camp, and of course, in the basement. » (Niles, 2022)
« Ideally, a practice place has sufficient space, a backdrop of relative quiet, and enough privacy to allow uninhibited trial and error. It should be a place where no one will pound on your door and yell, « Stop that racket! » Even more ideally, it’s a pleasant place, with good acoustics, a nice window, maybe even a piano… » (Niles, 2022)
« If you live with other people and you practice at home, then naturally you have to work your practice space and time around the other people who live in the house, in case they are working, sleeping, talking on the phone, etc. » (Niles, 2022)