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🦋 Heirloom

This is my grandfather's violin, which I've been playing (with significant interruptions) since I was 12 years old or thereabouts. Today I gave it away, to my daughter. A couple of thoughts --

Wow, Sylvia is playing a full-size violin now! It seems like the transition from ¼-size did not take a very long time.
I have really switched over pretty completely to the Stroh fiddle in the year or so I've had it. It feels like my native instrument now. I was playing this violin with Bob and Janis earlier today and noticing it felt a little foreign, the sound was not the Stroh sound which I have acclimated to.

I took the pickup off; if you're looking for a cheap Barcus Berry transducer to mount on your violin, give me a holler. It is nothing fancy but it served me well. Of the two stickers on the case, Sylvia will be keeping "Katze und MÃ¤dchen, ein komisches Paar" and getting rid of "Future Corpses of America" -- probably a wise decision. Need to get a better bow for Sylvia as I cannibalized the good bow for my Stroh fiddle.

Sylvia was going through the stuff in the outer pocket of the case and found sheet music for "Old Joe's Hittin' the Jug", which I had forgotten I had, and the dvd of Elixirs and Remedies. (Which, nice, I'm watching now.)

posted evening of Saturday, April 30th, 2011
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We have an heirloom violin (or fiddle) too. It has ended up, fittingly enough, with my sister who plays violin, though the instrument is unplayable. At least one of the cattle horns it's made from is cracked. Three photos of it here (on my flickr pages).

Next year, Sarah will be in 5th grade and can consider joining band, which she has been talking about. She hasn't settled on an instrument, though.

posted morning of November 18th, 2011 by Kip W

Wow! That cattle-horn fiddle is really something! I have never seen such an instrument. Wonder what it sounded like played.

posted evening of November 18th, 2011 by Jeremy

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