July 24, 2005 at 10:15 PM

Written by Bram Heemskerk

I haven’t play violin for the last month since my last amateurconcert. Normally I never practise as an amateur with my 5 orchestra’s a week, only for one good one, so why should I play? Perhaps it would be good to take some violinlessons after 23 years of not seriously having violinlessons. But I don’t think I would have enough time for that, because with a job and 5 orchestra’s every week there is not much time left and I don’t like to play in only 4 or 3 orchestra’s in a week. My Ding was 2 months ago so old that the iron got of the string and he lowered in tone. But someone else had a new Ding. After 10 years it is perhaps better to put a new set of 4 strings on my violin. Half a year ago I had a wood-worm in my violin and he had eaten a lot said a Dutch national violincompetition winner. He had never seen something like that. The violinbuilder had put some resin in the holes and canals, so you can also put some resin in your violin instead of on your bow. My bow had lost a lot of hair so I bought a new one. That was cheaper, said the violinbuilder.
Now I have more time to go to concerts. I was for example at the Dutch national violin competition in the public and that!! was a great show. Former laureates with a scarf of miss Holland with the year they were laureates or a cummer bund (for the boys) around their still slender bellies with the year on it. Big Show. Much better than at the Queen Elisabeth. There you had to wait for 2 long lasting hours before you know the new price winners. I also went to a concert in the open air of André Rieu who gave a big show with a big audience. He played the Seranata of Tocelli, a piece I hadn’t heard for 30 years. My grandfather, who didn’t understand Mozart, liked it and a cousin of 10 played it for him when he was married 50 years.

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