February 12, 2004 at 7:12 PM

Remember the german made pernambuco bow made by Karl Knilling I was talking about in October? When Connie died I told them not to worry about it and to keep the money out of respect for her legacy. Anyways, yesterday they told me they found the bow in a case ready to ship to me and it will be here in a few days. This is after I had completely given up and even started saving up for a different one, not beginning to know what I would buy or even try out. She once said the bow is as nice as some that cost more than triple what I paid. Every time I play with my new bow I will think of Connie, it was actually hers and was rehaired just before she was going to send it to me. Im very excited about getting it but Im also still very sad about loosing my good friend. We even used to talk on the phone and she once played the Bach d min giga with perfect intonation and almost no vibrato at all (she was a baroque violinist). God Bless Connie.

Saturday I plan on writing some stuff about Brahms and his violin concerto, this will be the beginnings of a violin timeline Im working on and also several documents that give details about the major works of the violin and the composers who wrote them.

The Bach G min is starting to sound good and Im able to play alot of it from memory. It will be nice to play all that Bach I have learned with a new bow, Im excited by this.

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