I wear a helmet outside just in case

[shadesofmauve]

I took Baby up to Applebaum's yesterday and dropped the good bow off for a rehair. They also straightened the warping bridge for me, which is cool for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it took a few hours, leading to this offer:

"If you don't mind hanging around for awhile, you can just pick a violin and play it. I'll point you at the top shelf."

So, about an hour and a half of solid practicing on a french violin from the 1800s, my own fiddle is fixed, I'm much better at the new Liz Carroll tune I've been working on, and I have total instrument lust.

It's only $15000! I could totally afford it someday, if, y'know, money fell on me from the sky!

Sky!Money! The key to all my long term goals.

Comments

[stasia]

Oh god, so much of my life would be made better by the addition of Money! Falling! From! The! Sky!

That violin sounds amazing.

Stasia

[shadesofmauve]

Wouldn't it? Sky Money! It's the solution!

[westrider.livejournal.com]

"The Warping Bridge" sounds more like some kind of inter-dimensional transport to me than a problem with a musical Instrument.

This may just be because I got up two hours earlier than usual this morning.

[shadesofmauve]

Now that I reread it, that was a really odd way for me to structure the sentence.

I can't poke fun at others' finding things funny, odd, or inter-dimensional: last night in the D&D game we started yelling "Dwarf Speed Ahead!" in best star trek fashion.

[t-c-da.livejournal.com]

You sound like you had fun waiting for the repairs.

Playing on expensive instruments can be fun indeed, much like a few years back we were shopping for a piano for my youngest son, and the gracious shopkeeper allowed him to have a go on a $63,000 grand piano, much to his delight. Need less to say there was no way we could afford it, and he settled eventually on a $4,000 second hand Knight (which was an interesting choice, given that a) we had never heard of Knight pianos, and b) we were paying for it with his inheritance from my Mother, who was a Knight before marrying Dad).

[shadesofmauve]

Oh, did I ever.

That's a wonderful story, and a wonderful coincidence of the name. What a marvelous way to spend an inheritance.

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

After some number of years, you could refinance your mortgage to get enough money, most likely... ;)

[shadesofmauve]

Ha, look at you, all home-owner-ly and grow-ed up!

Erik was chuckling about how very home-owner-ly we all sounded when you stopped by. By the way, he also wanted to apologize if he seemed antisocial. He's in the midst of quitting smoking and dealing with people is iffy.