[normhead]

My father tortured me with his weekly violin practice , every Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, 15 feet from were I was inevitably sleeping. I can't muster any love at all for the instrument. When I was 10 he made me join the school orchestra , but he didn't buy me a 3/4 size instrument, he made me use his, I had to stretch my little arms so hard to get to the proper finger positions I often cramped during rehearsal. I tell, you, it's truly an instrument of torture in the wrong hands. My teacher begged him to get my a smaller instrument. Instead he made me hate the instrument he loved. Though Beethoven Violin in D is still my favourite music of all time.

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[Auzzie-Phoenix]

hehehehe.... let the wailing sounds commence... lol.

[Aaron28]

hahaha!
sweet

[Auzzie-Phoenix]

Taken with the FA 28-105 f/4-5.6 (IF) a quickie shot of said instrument. Took me a while to get it all set up and tuned. Took just as long to get the rosin on the bow (I didn't use the sandpaper method of roughing the rosin first...). And yes, the string mute is about worthless... lol. I really should have used a narrower aperture to gain better DOF on the pic... but like I said... it was a quickie.

[adwb]

so now you can earn some spare tax free bucks with your new instrument

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[Aaron28]

of said instrument

nice.

[17dew]

I always wanted to fiddle around with one of those.

[normhead]

I feel a little ill now, I come back when I'm feeling bit better.
I can deal with this, I just need time.

[Auzzie-Phoenix]

I always wanted to fiddle around with one of those.

Not expensive, instrument wise for a student model. With extra rosin and garbage string mute it was less than $180 shipped incl. tax. My area isn't that great for finding used instruments, so I had to buy new and I rarely trust ebay for things of this nature. I'm actually cheaper when it comes to lenses than I am with instruments.

[Auzzie-Phoenix]

Huzzah. I have found the joys of spiccato/staccato bowing... lol. At the very least I'm watching tutorial videos and trying to mimick. I did just change out the strings to d'addario zyex ones though... the d'addario prelude strings were too sharp in sound and needed tuning too often. Didn't think it was possible for a set of strings to cost more than what I pay for bass strings though. Guitar strings are certainly much cheaper. Probably going to have to stop practicing at the lake, the humidity out there keeps making the horse hair on the bows lose tension (at least until closer to winter when the condensation and humidity calms down). Not the biggest fan of the fingerboard overlay, it keeps moving. It's like one of those plastic window clings for the violin neck. Useful, yes. But definitely tends to move around a bit, so you never know if you're intonating properly.

[bertwert]

How are you coming along?

[micromacro]

Just ordered myself a violin from amazon. Do I know how to play the violin? NO.

Just don't come closer to me!

Actually this morning I enjoyed neighbor's kids piano exercises (no wrong notes, good kid ), then my other neighbor, the old lady, started singing in her backyard. Well, she can't really sing...

[bertwert]

Just don't come closer to me!

Actually this morning I enjoyed neighbor's kids piano exercises (no wrong notes, good kid ), then my other neighbor, the old lady, started singing in her backyard. Well, she can't really sing...

Lucky you're on the other side of the continent.
I'm learning the bagpipes.

[micromacro]

I'm learning the bagpipes.

LOL Lucky you being still alive!

[csa]

Lucky you're on the other side of the continent.
I'm learning the bagpipes.

Heck, I thought my learning to play the dulcimer was a good thing I had no close neighbors!