On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:18:36 +0200, andrel wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:25:16 +0100, St. wrote:
>> 
>>>> Heh, the trick is not in the arm, it's in the fingers.  Used to be a
>>>> violinist, so my left hand is quite agile.
>>>     You did that left-handed? And you're naturally right-handed (I
>>>     assume)?
>>> Fairplay if so.  :oO
>> 
>> Actually, yes, I am naturally right-handed, but that was with my left
>> hand.  Used to be faster, but I haven't played my violin in several
>> years now.
>> 
>> I wonder what it'd be like if I actually were still playing. :-)
>> 
> over-fatigued?

Hmmm, probably, do need to take a break once in a while after all. ;-)

I've tried a few times recently - don't have the callouses on my fingers 
any more, so it does actually hurt a bit to play.

Well, that and that I need about $400 worth of work done on my violin - 
had some work done on it some time ago, and whoever did the actual work 
glopped some varnish on the end of the soundpost.  Friend of a friend in 
the Utah Symphony (a cellist) said he'd take it back to the last people 
who worked on it and make them fix it - but the guy's no longer in Utah, 
so getting them to do anything is going to be a problem anyways.

Not to mention that the e-string screech was one of the things I asked 
them to fix - the cause was something other than what I thought it was, 
though, and they did actually do the work I'd asked for, it just was the 
wrong cause and they didn't look any further.  I can't remember who 
worked on it before that.

Jim

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