{"id":1181,"date":"2007-08-10T04:59:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T09:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2007-08-10T04:59:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T09:59:15","slug":"almost-a-cellist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Almost A Cellist"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Pianomomsicle – a local blog that I wish were a lot more prolific – I loved this bit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So tonight i was looking for my old “Adoration” part, and found it and the piano part. i thought it might be fun to revisit it on violin, so i pulled my dear violin out again. And i opened it, and it wasn’t something hateful at all. It was my beloved Merrick (yes I named it) and it was looking back at me like “Why have you forsaken me?” And i played Adoration on it, and despite my very rusty technique, especially my horrible vibrato, IT still played as pure and true as it could. And i apologized to it afterwards. And will continue to play it, so i can get back up to feeling like my vibrato doesn’t sound like a beginner and my shifting doesn’t sound like sliding again. And i feel like a more complete person. The piano part is so pretty, and i was able to play it without much pausing, and that will be great. But the real victor was my relationship with my violin. i think the reason i hated it was because maybe i thought it was taking away from my piano playing, but now that i am known as a piano player, playing violin again has brought back memories and made me realize it’s wonderful. Maybe being with something 20+ hours\/week makes you forget about its good qualities or something. You could probably relate that to marriage, too. Well, after coming back to it, i definitely don’t want to let it go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I point it out partly because of the story at the top – how she became a violinist in the first place – and largely because re-discovering things you used to love had been a big theme for me lately…<\/p>\n

…no, not quite.\u00a0 I should have said “rediscovering things with which I used to have deeply-dysfunctional, codependent relationships, and trying to do it right this time” has been a big theme for me lately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My old cello needs a ton of work – so I don’t get to play much lately.\u00a0 But a few weeks ago I went into a store, and sat down and tried a cello.\u00a0 A nice one.\u00a0 I started playing a few old things I’d memorized maybe 25 years ago – some little K\u00fcffner etude that I used to do as a warmup exercise – and it felt like the sound was shaking something way deep in my brain.\u00a0 I kept on going, playing more old stuff, feeling deliriously comfortable, like the vibration of the instrument was a drug.<\/p>\n

Damn.\u00a0 Fun.\u00a0 Gotta do that again sometime.<\/p>\n

Anyway.\u00a0 Talk radio?\u00a0 Biking?\u00a0 I’ve been doing that kind of thing a lot lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Pianomomsicle – a local blog that I wish were a lot more prolific – I loved this bit: So tonight i was looking for my old “Adoration” part, and found it and the piano part. i thought it might be fun to revisit it on violin, so i pulled my dear violin out again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}