violin dorkage ahead
Apr. 14th, 2007 15:02![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltgmarsLast night we had our spring semester orchestra concert. My stand/life partner Halley invited me and our quartetmates to dinner with her family at San Pietro, a nice restaurant on the Main Line. It was tasty. :D The concert was fantastic -- Halley won the concerto competition, so she played the Barber with the orchestra (gorgeous piece... please listen to it if you have access to it), and then we played Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky. What a terrific concert... I felt so good about it all afterward. And I cried a little in between when Halley returned to her seat, 'cause I just felt so proud of her that I couldn't help but tear up. Oops. ^^;;
So today the paycheck for last month's slaving away at my part-time jobs (Career Development Office and Phonathon) went through, so I went ahead and ordered some equipment for my violin:
Pirastro Obligato Violin Set-Loop E-4/4 size-Med. ($47.04)
Ebony Violin Tailpiece - 4/4 Size ($5.20)
Gold-Plated Hill Style Violin Fine Tuner 4/4 Size ($4.72)
Chinrest Tightener ($1.99)
Hill Peg Compound ($6.99)
Total: $65.94
Some of you know more about stringed instruments than others, but suffice it to say that I'm completely revamping my violin. I'm removing three of my fine tuners so that I only have a fine tuner on the E string, and I'm getting new strings (which generally I get pretty often anyway, but I'm hoping the Obligatos will warm up my violin a little more because they're synthetic... my violin's just so bright). I'm kind of retrospectively regretting not mentioning it to my private teacher first, but I've been itching to change everything for a while now, and they're all changes that he'd approve of anyway, methinks. So it should be okay.
Now if only I practiced...
So today the paycheck for last month's slaving away at my part-time jobs (Career Development Office and Phonathon) went through, so I went ahead and ordered some equipment for my violin:
Pirastro Obligato Violin Set-Loop E-4/4 size-Med. ($47.04)
Ebony Violin Tailpiece - 4/4 Size ($5.20)
Gold-Plated Hill Style Violin Fine Tuner 4/4 Size ($4.72)
Chinrest Tightener ($1.99)
Hill Peg Compound ($6.99)
Total: $65.94
Some of you know more about stringed instruments than others, but suffice it to say that I'm completely revamping my violin. I'm removing three of my fine tuners so that I only have a fine tuner on the E string, and I'm getting new strings (which generally I get pretty often anyway, but I'm hoping the Obligatos will warm up my violin a little more because they're synthetic... my violin's just so bright). I'm kind of retrospectively regretting not mentioning it to my private teacher first, but I've been itching to change everything for a while now, and they're all changes that he'd approve of anyway, methinks. So it should be okay.
Now if only I practiced...
