How To Play a Tango

This is not really a quote, but I'm including it anyway.  Junior Quartet [with no viola].  They'd played a piece I'd arranged for them, a tango.  It was okay, but not very tango-like.

Me: How could you play this more like a tango?
Violin 1 does a sharp breath in through her nose, stands up very straight with her bow in her mouth like it is a rose, and starts doing tango-style steps around her chair.
Violin 2 sees that, and puts her bow in her mouth as well, and does similar moves.
Cello then puts her bow in her mouth and dances with her cello with ballroom dancing-style moves.

I try not to laugh too much as I can see a potential disaster.
Me: Um... Okay.  Bows out of mouths.  So that's how we could act a tango.  How does that work in playing a tango?
Violin 1 [taking out her bow, sitting down]: Ooh!  Like this-
She sits down, her back over-arched, and does strong full bows with her bow in the air, sharply inhaling and exhaling with every stroke, and a slight torso movement side to side.

Me: Exactly.

The great thing about this quartet is that, although they are not very focused for very long, they work hard when they are switched on, and they practice!  Once we've discussed how to make something better, they then do it and (usually) remember for the next time.

Funny Pronunciation

The continuing quartet performed last week.  This was their first rehearsal since then, so I had a look for some new music for them and took a couple of compilation books along.  The first violin and viola were there at the start, so I gave them each a book to flip through and see if anything took their fancy.

Viola [looking at me with big eyes through big glasses, over the music stand]: Can we do Tango, number 3?

When the second violin and cello arrived I handed out booklets, and they all had a look through their parts before we played.  A bit of "How does my part go?" and "What's that rhythm?" and "Is that a 2 or a 3?" and then someone looked across at the 2nd piece.  I was still helping the cello, and the other girls started off the rhythm - dum - da dum - da dum - da dum ... for a while.

Cello [so judgmentally]: What's that?  Bor-ing.

We started playing the tango.  The cello part was really easy.  While she was playing, she stole a few glances at the second piece.

Cello [suddenly, eyes wide, very excited, and still playing]: Oh!  OH!  Can we do the number 2? PLEASE?  I just worked out which piece it is and my grandma LOVES it!
Viola: So are we playing that one now?  Fun-nee cull-ee fun-nee cull-ah?
Me [laughing]: Um.  Ah.  Few-ni-cue-lee few-ni-cue-lah.