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February 23, 2006

Challenged

After picking up Vieuxtemps Concerto #4 from SWStrings on Saturday, as well as some new strings, I set about changing and cleaning the violin. Now, when I would do this on my guitar, I would take all the strings off, and give the guitar a good cleaning. It's been a few weeks/months/years/decades since I've done any string changing on the violin, and of course I popped all the strings off. Thus relieving any necessary tension on the violin and causing the soundpost to gently fall and roll about the inside of the violin. This was both good and bad.

Bad, because I couldn't practice at all. Good because it put me in the same room with my mentor who quickly repaired and made a few adjustments to the violin, and we discussed taking up private study again. I am looking forward to this quite a bit, more so than in my youth. I also like the tone of the violin now that the bridge and post have been repositioned, a bit heavier I think. The Vieuxtemps? A bit tricky. I should update the media player to include what I'm currently working on....

Contrived by Joshua at February 23, 2006 07:18 AM