Friday, February 20, 2009

Oh careless love!

My heart cries for my lovely Sarah,
I treasure the moments with you under my wrist.
How could this ever happen to you, Sarah?
that a precious violin like you should ever suffer like this ...

A bridge gave way
and had to be fixed
when it was fine,
a string found its kicks

As stated above, my violin has been given me lots of trouble this few days. First, the bridge (that tiny wooden thing holding up the strings) gave way ... I couldn't practise for a week. Then, today at violin class, my E string broke. (the G string's still fine!)

Oooh ... me favourite partttttt ....

FIVE WAYS TO TELL IF A VIOLIN'S A GOOD ONE

1. It's got strings
2. Its strings don't make squeaky noises (oh, then, it's just the strings, right?)
3. The strings produce a clear sound, when pressed at right position (no)
4. It was made by human hands, and not machines (oh ... so it's also the person right?)
5. A good musician buys it for 10 K (well, sorta ... )

Well, hope to hear from you soon. Oh, and Benji, thanks for telling me about the famous Greek violinist on Youtube.

Cheerio!

4 comments:

wengsoon said...

No, all good strings are squeaky, it depends on how good quality are the strings, the squeakiness depends on the quality. a very good one would cost around 15k

wengsoon said...

all new strings i mean

wengsoon said...

a very good Violin** would cost around 15k

Chow Xin said...

Ooo ... yes, you're RIGHT!!!!! Oh, I meant, good strings "produce the sound well". Yep. Tq, weng soon!