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Tool of the Trade
I don't post a lot, but I wanted to try a picture. This is my usual "sidearm" as a music teacher for the last 28 years. It's a 2002 Tetuso Matsuda violin. It's modeled on a Guarneri Del Gesu so it is a bit small and very easy to play. It would be nice to have the real thing but it would only be about $7,000,000! Oh well, I don't deserve it anyway!
Sorry, the picture is not that good.
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Sorry I screwed up, I will try again.
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Got it now!
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Looked good to me!
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12-31-2009, 08:43 PM
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Nice,I tryed to play one that is in the family,It was my Great Uncles.His was/is a threequater size.I play guitar and can't get my fingers to go that way.Let alone tuning that thing.I respect your abilities and your teaching others.
Happy New Year,D.G.
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...them f-holes ain't no safety lock these days are they?
I played violin for about 20 years & finally gave it up. Played notes not music. But my favorite musical instrument is called 'the full symphonic orchestra'.....
Cheers for the new year.
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This one is just a few millimeters short, but it helps out on my fourth finger as it is not as stretchy as it once was. I would love to be able to play guitar, I have never gotten after it. I am really a viola player as that was my major instrument in school and college but I teach better with a violin and I transpose in my head better in treble clef. This instrument is fairly new to me and it is great. Walmart and the grocery store are used to me bringing it in to the store with me if I stop after school. It is usually too hot or too cold, and it is worth more than my car.
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How does the chin rest attach?
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While it's not a Guarneri, I suspect that it's still a pretty expensive instrument, not some 300 dollar student box. Out of curiosity a few years back I looked into getting a quality Violin and learning to play it. Once I saw the prices, I decided that was one ambition that I really didn't need to fulfill.
Good for you with sticking with your chosen career. My sister was a Music major who taught for 4 years until 2 of her 3 schools dropped their music programs, now she's a CPA. Sadly too many Voters and School Boards don't consider the intangable benefits of a Music program to have enough value to maintain them. You must have been pretty tenasious to have managed to spend 28 years teaching and deserve that reward.
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Wow,I hope you drive a nice car.Guitar is easy as it's fixed tuning so you don't have to be so precise.Manupulation of the note is a lot more user friendly on a guitar.
And a the least with guitar....."If you cant play well,play loud"
What musical style do you like to play the most?
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All Classical music, I really never had any training in anything else. I do teach the violins for a mariachi though. As to prices I had a price list of bows from the 50's where they some going for $200 that would be $100,000 or more now! It's like they said: "Stradivari is dead and he ain't making very many any more"
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Understood,I haven't found the Holy Grail in a yard sale yet.
So we get the best that we can......sounds like you did good.
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Every once in a while an unknown Stradivari or Guarnari will show up. Sometimes instruments that were stolen years ago will reappear. For many of these instruments we know their whole history and all the people who have owned them right back to the maker. There are modern makers who do quite well and get up to $70,000 for a fiddle. There have been many double blind tests with old instruments and new where the juries could not pick out the Strads, etc. many times they like the new ones. Lots of famous players have had their instruments copied by modern makers (scratches and all!) you never know which one they are playing.
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I remember a show about someone trying to reproduce a 'Strad.They took caliper measurements of the wood,top and bottom.They looked real hard at the density of the wood the glue and the finish,I don't have any idea how good it turned out because it was on "TV" so whatever it sounded like wasn't accurate.
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I feel the poster's pain regarding the elimination of music programs in our schools. I am fortunate to live in a community that strongly supports music programs in our schools. I have two daughters who were wonderful musicians, I say were because they are also very talented softball players. The sad part is that the music directors and sports coaches cannot get along and the students are caught in the middle. My oldest daughter played the oboe and was talented enough that by her junior year she was playing in a band composed of seniors who planned to major in music in college. My younger daughter was equally talented with the clarinet, her last year in junior high she was named principal second after her first playing test and first chair after her second. Since softball scholarships rather than music scholarships were going to help pay some of their college expenses, they were forced to give up music when the softball coach and the music director clashed and there were threats from the music director to trash their grades if he did not get his way. While I love to watch them play softball, I also enjoyed seeing them perform in the music programs. I too feel that they derived a lot from the discipline and dedication required to become a good musician, doubly so because they were also involved in a strenuous practice schedule for softball. The story has a happy ending though, the oldest daughter is playing college softball and was named to the Dean's List majoring in accounting and the youngest daughter also posted straight A's in her junior year and will likely captain the softball team in her senior year.
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Marksman,
That's too bad, I think both sports and music are very important. My favorite teacher, the man I call "my teacher" went to Indiana University as a music major on a football scholarship. He was the 6' 7" 250 pound starting quarterback! He also played basketball there. Music and sports here in Texas can get to be very competitive, and the pressures on the coaches and directors can be a major pain. I don't know another state that funds music programs as well as Texas. As far as sports go I would like to see more kids involved as we have problems with obesity and the resulting effects later in life. I wish I had been more active and I am trying to make up for it now. We are too soon old and too late smart!
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I played Viola and played football from grade school through high school. My parents divorced. Mother remarried and we moved to Fountain Valley Ca. The Orchestra and Football programs were a joke! Strings that were sawing away on Mary Had a Little Lamb with a football team that had no idea how to drive a sled across the practice field and cried like baby's when they got to hot.
My Viola went missing during my first marriage. Wife #1 turned out being bipolar, manic with multi personality's. So god only knows where the truth lies concerns that wonderful instrument. It was a wonderful 4/4 sized instrument imported from Germany. Cost my parents a lot of money back in the 70's.
My most important teacher ever was my strings teacher in public school, Fort Smith Ar. ,,,,,, Mrs. Wintory,,,, may she rest in peace. A wonderful lady with many talents.
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My daughter would like to be a music teacher (she is a junior in HS this year). We talk about the stupid politics of school systems, as Marksman refers to, and I tell her to have a back-up plan. There is a lot that goes on in a school system that indicates leadership seems to lose track of the fact that the first job should be to give the kids the best shot at an education they can.
I envy your ability with the violin. It is a beautiful instrument. If I had the slightest shred of musical ability, I would be torn between it and the piano. I was a brass man when I was in school, but not much of one.
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I would encourage your daughter to get her general education credentials as well as the music ones. I wish I had, it gives you a great deal more flexibility.
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