You're totally not gonna believe me. AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ready for this?
I bought my violin. (rather, my absolutely wonderful, incredible, amazingly generous parents bought it for me. :-)
Ummmmm....!!!!!!!!!!!!! No way!
Ummmmm....!!!!!!!!!!!!! No way!
I spent two hours this morning playing ten different violins at House of Note and deciding which one I liked best. Playing multiple songs over and over on different instruments, paying painful amounts of attention to the sound, the tone, the ringing.
I spent another hour, fishing through at least fifteen bows, using them - noting the tone, the stroke, the feel - carefully eliminating them one by one until I found the one that was perfect.
And oh my word. The. violin. is. beautiful. The tone is stunning. The strings are amazingly easy to stroke and surprisingly smooth, much more so then my old violin - it makes vibrato a breeze, whereas on my previous instrument, I struggled quite a bit.
It seems like I've been playing it ever since I got home from the shop!
Just look at this stunna. And believe me, it plays more beautiful than it looks!
Ahhhh. Doesn't it just take your breath away?
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