The Instrumentalists Thread

[Rían]

Originally Posted by Midge

Midge's violin timeline:

1. desire to play violin
2. buys a crappy violin off craigslist
3. finds out crappy violin is crappy and unplayable.
4. borrows better violin from step-father-in-law, who is borrowing it from a local church
5. starts learning to play violin
6. finds out crappy violin is cheaper to fix than originally thought
7. pays 20 dollars to have crappy violin fixed
8. starts to tune crappy violin (I was very excited. I finally was playing my OWN violin).
9. plastic thingy on the end that holds the fine-tuners snaps and nearly severs arm (ironically the string is perfectly fine).
10. Midge is

OMGOODNESS! I'm glad you're ok, though! I hope you get your violin up and running soon

When my mom had her gigantor lever harp, she said that strings popping on that baby were like a gunshot! and they always seemed to happen in the middle of the night.