Blog? A Travelogue?

February 14, 2008 at 4:50 PM

Why Blog? I considered all that is good and bad about writing a journal for all the world to see. I remembered traveling to France for a 16 day tour where we went around the country clockwise and how we were advised to keep a journal or else we would forget where we were because the tour would be moving at a fast clip. Paris, Lyon, Nice--sometimes 2 cities in one day and castles, wine, perfume--we got it all at breakneck speed. I have looked back on my journal and matched the 15 rolls of film that I took. My sketches, photographs and journal entries are a source of delight and inspiration for me now.
This is why I have decided to blog. i want to have a record of this mentally taxing journey. I want to know where I am going with this and to see if any progress is being made.
Today I am going to record one of the worst practices. I have never played this piece this poorly with such bad tone, screechy sound, bowing all falling apart.
At my lesson I played the piece a notch down from my best effort so my teacher told me to e-mail him an mp3 of my best effort sometime this week and start on a new piece. I have had the camera running-(it has the best microphone that I own) and I cannot play at all.
I took a shower and concluded that i should burn all my bows in the fireplace and hang the violin up as a towel rack in the bathroom.
I will also note that the temperature is above the teens and the sky is without sun as if that should make any difference. I am so discouraged that I don't have the energy to start a fire in the fireplace so for now my assortment of bows are safe--(although they would burn like pinecones with all the rosin.)
Tomorrow I will set out again.

From Shailee Kennedy
Posted on February 14, 2008 at 7:26 PM

The bows would make much better towel racks, don't you think?

Don't worry, you'll be fine. Just don't give up. There's an Irish fiddler who says that fiddle players have to have very active fantasy lives, because they have to be able to imagine themselves as they would like to sound someday, while they are learning to overcome the present day obstacles. Cheers!

From Joe Fischer
Posted on February 15, 2008 at 3:05 AM

Rather than a burn,the towel racks sound very good for the bows
OR,perhaps utilize the bows befitted with truffles over a coal fire with a bottle of some fine wine as accompaniment beside the ocean of your choice--in summer season with roaring white-caps as a backdrop;just around sunset.
Journals are very important,but rid them if you are married-or planning to become so.

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