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Continue reading →: Paganini weirdos strike again
I’m absolutely dying. There was some weirdo in the 1880s who dressed up as Paganini’s corpse and performed Paganini pieces and got so bent out of shape about people wanting to hear him play other pieces that he paid for an ad in the Times to show how not owned…
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Continue reading →: Kytte’s grandfather
(From ‘A Concert’ by Lorenzo Costa; there’s some people in it but who cares)
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Continue reading →: Growth (again)!
Man, I had an epiphany with violin this week. I read someone’s perspective on musicality that was, to paraphrase, that music is a discussion between artist, audience, history, and composer and I was like “whoa wait hold on, a whole lot of things just made sense all of a sudden.”…
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Continue reading →: A little medley
I’m embracing the uncomfortable! I haven’t practiced seriously or played publicly in seventeen+ years! I’m still getting used to this instrument! I think I did pretty okay, all things considered! Someday I’ll remember to look like I’m enjoying it while I’m playing! XP
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Continue reading →: Weird gearI’m trying to find out how much old-school geared/mechanical violin pegs weigh because they’re universally known to be Very Heavy but no one has ever told me Exactly how heavy and I’m desperately curious. I did come across the most bizarre set of geared pegs I’ve seen yet though: (Pictures…
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Continue reading →: Family portraitApparently it’s World Violin Day, so here’s the silliest family portrait. I was even nice enough to include the VSO 😛 Now I gotta find out when World Viola Day is…
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Continue reading →: Kytte!
Took a quick and dirty phone pic of Kytte, partly for reference purposes, partly for sheer joy :3 Such a weird little beafte, but I love him. I’m going to go dig out my leather scraps and see if I can’t fashion an ~aesthetic~ chinrest cover for him. I don’t…








