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Continue reading →: Digital window shoppingI was trawling a museum’s digital collection in the vain hope that they’d still have an instrument described in a book from the 1880s. But first, I ran across this Thomas Howell violin, which is great: “Help, my instrument is melting” And then I found the little beauty! “There is…
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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 →: Doublet progressSo, the pattern fits! I ended up shortening the paper version by an inch, then totally didn’t need to do that, but that’s my own silliness, not a knock against the pattern or instructions. The fit is a bit loose around the back armscye, but again, not a pattern problem,…
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Continue reading →: New year, new doubletWell, I’m going full steam ahead on the reverse applique doublet for Rabbit. I need to do a mockup for fit because I haven’t used this pattern before, but I am vaguely hopeful. The pattern is the Burguen doublet/Male-bodied doublet ca 1600-1620 from The Modern Maker (an absolutely delightful resource…
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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 →: Props: Map makingI’m working on a map for Rabbit. A few weeks ago, I decided to go to one of my favorite parks and shoot some video footage of my bard costume. Well, let me tell you: it’s super awkward to do video or even photo shoots without props. And I didn’t…
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