[musictlk] anybody play a stringed instrument here?

[humberto]

Hello, everybody.

I am a high school student in Yakima, WA, and I am enrolled with 
the high school orchestra. I play the violin. (specifically the 
first violin). My orchestra director has told often that within 
our sections (I.E. violins, cellos), when I play with my other 
partners who play the violin, I need to play bowing in the same 
direction. This means that everyone in a section needs to bow in 
the same direction.
My question is, how can a blind person be able to tell the 
direction of the bowing, and how can that person match the same 
bowing direction with his or her other sighted members? How can a 
blind person watch for the other players and be able to play with 
the same bowing technique? I ask this because I don't want to be 
the only one who is not matching the same bowing direction with 
my instrument in front of all the others, especially because we 
are entering an Orchestra context, in which all the high schools 
in my region compete. Besides, I really want to demonstrate the 
community that blind people can do the same things as the 
sighted, just slightly different. Any comments are more than 
welcome.