February 2012
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January 2012
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on pain
Violin = massive neck and shoulder pain. Need to find a really good teacher who can help with my posture, not just a professional player who teaches in their spare time. Once I have that sorted, I think there’ll be room for improvement.
I think that when I was growing I developed some poor habits, and I need to get out of them.
I hope this marks the start of something that will get...
Welcome to my Mind.: Eight years in the making.... →
thebestofusareinsane:
I remember the phone call my best friend and I had for at least three hours about how excited we were to start learning how to play a violin when we were in year two. We talked about how we’ve always dreamed of playing it and how we “remember” hearing someone play a violin, which from then on, it…
I’m scared of this. I haven’t played in years because I...
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What Really Happened in that Double-Blind Violin... →
sigmastolen:
Laurie Niles, a participating violinist, discusses the methods and meaning of this widely-reported study. She writes pointedly,
If people are concluding from this study that “professional violinists can’t tell the difference between modern violinist and old Italians,” then I think we need a different study in which violinists are actually asked to identify that.
Niles also...
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“The only problem with that was, when you’re a classical violinist, everybody...”
– Emilie Autumn (via bara-no-uta)
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Emilie Autumn — Willow...
Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad?... →
classically-sound:
More “is there a difference between new & old violins” reading.
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Whitlams
There really is a dearth of Whitlams violin on youtube. As in I could barely find any. And none of the songs I’d expect, like Blow Up the Pokies. I might try and work it out. MAYBE.
As a side note The Whitlams are one of my favourite bands ever. They have beautiful stuff. Piano rock :D
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Stress
Yesterday, when I was in the violin shop, the guy adjusting my instrument mentioned that violin was a ‘stressful’ instrument.
I grew up finding most schoolwork fairly easy, and when confronted with violin, I found a huge challenge. This was not helped by my first teacher Norma (oh I remember her well) who I played with for roughly..3-4 years? They were group lessons, theory and...
How to hold a violin →
shigella:
Excellent breakdown of posture, contact points and how to maximize comfort. I am going to re-read this frequently as a reminder.
First post - starting out
I’ve made this blog to collect everything about practical music. I’ve mirrored this post from my personal blog, tumblr.com/andariel-axe. There you will find photos (some NSFW) of things that interest or entertain me.
Here you’ll find blogging about my personal relationship with music (I’m less of a ponce than you think, I promise), things I find interesting or...