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[mayoraasei]

Feeling procrastinative musical today and dug out a random recorder and violin.

Does anyone know how to fix violin strings? Not sure what to call those things, but the little tuning knob down the bottom is attached to a metal hook-like object, which has split halfway like a piece of cheap plastic, thereby proving it is. Anyway, back to the fixing string problem, the E-string keeps popping off the damn tuning knob, and I really don't want to get sliced in the eye by a highly taut and thin piece of metal wire with a metallic knob on the end.

(Yes, the violin was made in China ~~;;;; It took me about an hour to get a decent amount of resin on the bow so that it could actually make a noise...and the stupid tuning whistle is off-tune. Ugh.)

My recorder on the other hand, was made in Japan and hasn't broken even though I've had it for 10 years now (and despite me accidentally hurling bits of it on the ground due to trying clear out the...water inside). And it only costed $8. And it sounds much nicer when played, but I don't think that has anything to do with the manufacturer (damn).


Today I had my first biochem, Japanese and pharmacology lectures. And lugged home about 300 pages of readings for pharmacology (+ 3 Japanese texts + 1 microbio prac book) T________T I have never seen so much readings for science.

Biochem is completely beyond me, must revise ==; Can't remember what POL stood for any more, except that it had something to do with promoters...I think?

Didn't actually do much in Japanese, apart from nearly having a heart attack from seeing the fully kanji-ised sentence: "Watashi wa kinou tomodachi no JIEN-san isshou ni daigaku ikimashita."

(Yesterday I went to uni with my friend Jane)


Am going back to uni in ...3 hours time...for a meeting =___=|||| And I start tomorrow at 8am T_________T Fortunately, there are no labs this week, meaning I only have one hour of lecture on Thursday....

Comments

[nunuunuuu.livejournal.com]

8am starts, still!?? Faaaaark.

Science students need a break. Those dang art students don't rock into class until the afternoon.

You play violin!?! That's sooo coooooool. I don't play any instruments, but if I were to learn one, violin would be the first.

My sis' violin had the same problem... I used masking tape XD Then there wasn't enough friction to keep the knob in place... adhesive! I am quite scared about snapping strings too, but if it can't be tuned without snapping... 't is a shit string.

What Jap are you enrolled in?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

No...I don't play the violin. Originally wanted to learn the violin, but ended up learning the viola instead...then the violin arrived from China, except I preferred the viola by that time (and still do), and then I changed school so there weren't any more cheap accessible viola lessons, so I gave up ==; /end long history.

If I chose all over again, I would have gone for viola first go. Maybe even cello - which has a beautiful sound up high. Violin is really really painful in the hands of the unskilful. We used to have a beginner's string ensemble, and the violins (especially when they're tuning) sounded like a litter of tortured cats. /end long violin rant.

Ah! Masking tape sounds like a good idea! I'll try that next time ^^v

I'm doing beginner's Jap XD Are you still doing Jap?

[beliael.livejournal.com]

As for the violin, try to put a bit of wax on it?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

On which part? Oo;

[beliael.livejournal.com]

Hmm with my brother's violin, we always had problems with putting the string with the wooden pegs on the scroll, putting wax on it would help it ease the strings on without it being greasy and slipping off. I'm not sure if it works on the metal bits, but I dunno try to put wax on the parts of the string that you're gonna wind in?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Oooh! That sounds interesting ^^ I'll try that, thanks.

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

Watashi wa kinou tomodachi no JIEN-san isshou ni daigaku ikimashita

jien-san.. XD

ooh! I didn't know you played the violin o__O||

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Ah, technically, I play with the violin. Lol.

I think I'm halfway towards playing the recorder though XD

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

heh, I see :D

[a-cryptic.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, you talking about our string ensemble?? yes, it was horrible... especially when we were all tuning... i like the mellow sound of the cello, it's very soothing^^ The only bad thing about cello is it's so big it's really inconvenient to lug around everywhere.

Oh, and talking about the cello, it reminds me of year 11 and 12 music. There was this really nice korean girl who played the cello in our class, and Virginia (if you remember, she was the mischeivous-in-a-loud-and-distracting-way sort) drew a pair of humungous eyes, cut them out and stuck it onto her cello case XD. Eunice (that's the korean girl) thought it looked cute so she carried her cello home in the newly modified case and everyone loved it (the case)! Our music class even gave her cello case a name LOL, forgot what it was tho...

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Yes! The string ensemble!!!! Argh!!!!!! I remember the violas and cellos usually practised next door in the little piano room, and the violins would be pulling the throats out of each other in the other room......ugh it already sounded bad enough through closed doors.

Yes, the cello has a really lovely sound. And it doesn't squeak horribly the way the violin does in the hands of the uninitiated...

Eh, Eunice as in the Eunice who's always been at the school? Wow! I didn't know she played the cello!