I took String Class for a year in college 3 days a week for about 45 or 50 minutes, I think. I had a trust that it would be okay. I was kinda nervous about the difficulty I anticipated about finding the notes, some. I have a hard time now on my own after 11 years of not touching a violin. I took violin my 1st semester because I had to. I stuck with it cuz I was already on it. I wanted to play viola at times.
I was in choir for 3 years in school and later just at church. I feel that compared to a string player as a singer that I am not as reliable because conducting singers in a choir, we all have different voices, but with string instruments there are only 4 kinds of instruments or "bodies," if you will.