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Old violin sold, history lecturer's anticts

February 23, 2006 at 2:55 PM

Well, my old violin has finally been sold. I've had it on the market for two years now, and it has been on consignment for 6 months before it got sold. Yay! I can now buy that new bow that I've been needing for the past two years. I'll head back to the luthier on monday to try out some bows. I'm not sure whether to go with a slightly cheaper than my budget carbon fibre bow (Coda Conservatory) or go right on my budget and get a wooden bow. I'm leaning towards carbon fibre, 1) because it's better for the environment, 2) because I'm probably going to get a better quality bow with better reactions than the wooden one, and 3) it's cheaper, which means I can probably get some sheet music and cd's as well :)

Had my history 2 lecture today. I'm recording my history lectures as a study technique. It means that if i miss something in my notes I can go back to it later, and I can play the lecture in my sleep to help memorise. I keep telling my mum that this isn't all i'll be doing, it's just one of the things.
Anyway, listening to todays recording, it amazed me how many times she said "um" - you'd think a fairly educated person who knows the topic she's talking about wouldn't say it so much... oh well.
She also doesn't know the end of beethoven's 5th symphony. She managed to turn what was supposed to be straight quavers into triplets!!! Well, she is a double bassist, so I guess you can't expect too much from her!

Apart from that, all is going well.