… too soon? I do most sincerely hope your thumb heals over as good as new and as quickly as possible. 😦
violin making
VSA 2014: Broken record
This year, the VSA held its instrument competition. Once the winners were announced and the competition room opened, everyone stormed in and got their grubby hands all over the brand new instruments. Violinists went down the line of 250 violins, playing their favorite golden magic test passages over and over and over. When two approached one another, I fully expected some virtuoso battle to erupt:
It was as though each one thought they were the ONLY one in the room. Oh right, they’re violinists. 🙂
VSA 2014: guessing game
I missed a post! I was too busy staring at 500 new instruments & bows at the 2014 Violin Society of America Convention and Competition in Indianapolis. Had lots of fun, met lots of great people!
I am not really that poorly behaved.
How to give a violin setup student nightmares
Poor Omobono!
Stages of Grief, told with scrapers
I’m in the middle of arching my second violin. I laid out my scrapers and they arranged themselves like this:
My bench neighbor looked over at me playing tangrams with my scrapers and all he had to say was: “You’re retarded.”
fix it with shading 