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Continue reading →: I made a violin (bag)!Yooooooo, it’s finished* I sacrificed an old belt for the strap and I made a thread button for a faux end pin. :3c One side of the front warped rather badly (oops, should have done the embroidery before assembly!) so the rib section is Very Wonky but gosh it’s so…
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Continue reading →: A wild bard appeared!Did I remember to take any pictures at Bristol? No. Did I have a ton of fun wearing this anyway? Hell yeah. Am I ready to start work on Phase Two (Figuring Out Fasteners)? …….eh
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Continue reading →: Floofy bard pants!There are no closures on any of this and I need to gather the legs to the kneebands, but Floofy Bard Pants~ Fear my photography skills! These pants aren’t proper Renaissance-y slops, but a quick knock up of something similar. Well, kind of similar. Not really similar. They are made…
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Continue reading →: If it ain’t Baroque
Well, at least one of my impulse buys has turned out to be useful! Back in 2019, I bought an inexpensive Baroque ~style~ bow to be part of my not-really-historical violin kit. An ambitious idea, but the bow mostly just languished on a shelf until now. I gotta say, even…
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Continue reading →: A bard’s worst nightmare
Saving this link for when I need to be a buzzkill in a gaming session again ♥ (aka: holy shit stop making your melee attacks with your non-magical wooden musical instrument)
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Continue reading →: The more things change…Ohohoho, I am extremely smug. So violin teachers will sometimes put a bit of tape or dot stickers on the fingerboard of a beginner’s violin so they learn where to place the fingers to make the correct note (violins don’t have frets like a guitar, it’s all knowing what the…
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Continue reading →: Telephone Game, Violin Edition
I decided that my personal assignment for the day was to go watch violin clickbait because I’m not entirely sure that “internet famous violinist says some crappy wamazon special violins are okay!!!” was actually what he said… First note: I don’t think it’s an accident that he’s decided to go…
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Continue reading →: Springing into Summer
Hello again, beloved blog. It’s been a hot minute! I’d like to blame it solely on being busy but I am also just out of practice at real blog updates…
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Continue reading →: *vibrating at 660Hz*
I love teaching violin. It’s so cool to see someone Learning. Like, when you’ve been going “remember to straighten your wrist” and suddenly they’re like “oh, I can feel that my wrist is bent now” before you say something, or when they go “oh, that note is wrong. I’m not…
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Continue reading →: How (not) to write a bard…
Me: it takes about 10 years of practicing violin to reach the point where you could be professionalThem: that’s ridiculous, I’ve seen video of 15 year olds who are phenomenalMe: 🙃 guess how old they were when they started lessons, chump (I’m not irritated by random gaming acquaintance not knowing…
Amateur Bard 