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June 23, 2006 at 9:14 PM

There are some really good videos of Henryk Szeryng on youtube that a friend of mine put up. There are a total of four so far.

Driver's Ed ended today. I hated it. I did learn a lot though... enough to realize that a bunch of hicks in Georgia don't know how to drive.

Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to practice lately. The fingrboard of my violin started to come off earlier this week. My luthier fixed it. She also reconmended some strings. They are Vision Titanium orchestra. I like them. I think they are better than Evahs, but that is just me. Some of you wouldn't agree. Try them out if you have the money. They are about the same price as Evahs anyways.

If the hour or so that I've been able to practice each day for the past couple of days, I've practiced scales. I need to work on Schubert and Bartok for my camp. There are just a few arpeggios in Schubert and a few slides in Bartok to work on. Thankfully, my quartet got easy music.

Sunday afternoon, I am meeting with my quartet for the first time. Hopefully we will get along. I want to like them.

I don't have much experience being in a quartet which is the main reason why I wanted to participate in the program. I'm sure it will be a good learning experience.

My violin shop has this awesome service where you can go with your violin (or viola, cello or bass) and try any of the strings on your violin. It is cool, and I have tried vision titanium, but they are way to bright/(dont know how to describe it) twangy on my violin. The Evah's arent to bad but Ill stick to my Super-sensitive Sensicore for me :).