July 4, 2005 at 11:14 PM

Its always great to get paid for doing something as fun as playing the violin. Today I recorded a piece for the Arizona Shakespeare Festival. And that was really fun - I've never done anything quite like that before. They gave us a recording of someone humming the tune, then the other violinist and I had about 10 minutes to learn the piece. Then we recorded it. For the play, they are going to warp and distort the recording, so I have no idea what i will sound like...

However, this morning wasn't so great...

When I went to set up my violin (an hour before my lesson) I saw that all the pegs had slipped far enough that there was no tension across the body, which caused the sound post to fall. So, I called a friend in a complete panic, then my mom took me to her house so that I could use one of her violins.

That was ok, but its adjusted ever so slightly different from mine, so I was playing slightly flat for my whole lesson. (Once I to my teacher what had happened, he stopped tellling me I was playing flat...).

oh sigh...

From Carley Anderson
Posted on July 5, 2005 at 1:32 PM

oh, that's too bad! Are you going to be able to get it fixed soon?

From Jessica Smith
Posted on July 5, 2005 at 5:03 PM

I hope so (I now have two violins that need soundposts...) but I have access other violins I can use until I can use mine again.

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