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Journal SolemnDragon's Journal: teh screecherbox and bow (i TOLD you you'd be sorry) 22

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Guess what dragon got a neighbour-tormentor?

That's right, i gots me a VIOLIN!!!!

i always wanted one.

It gets delivered next week.

I was going to buy myself one for my birthday but blinder stole my idea.

That's oke, he got me a nicer one than i would have.

The world will be very, very sorry, but i'm ecstatic.

(You have no idea how bad a beginner's violin can sound.)

WooohoooooOO!

So tell me, what have you always wanted? always, always, but never stepped up and got?

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  • I used to play violin ;-)

    Happy 30th Birthday! :-D

  • I know, I know, it's not exactly something huge and expensive, but as a kid I always LOVED playing with Legos and I wanted some. My mother would never let me have them, though, due to the likely consequences on the vacuum cleaner. I still enjoy them immensely. Now I have children that would compete for them with me, so it's likely that I still won't get any. (Well, I could get them but probably would not be able to keep them for very long.) :-/

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ryanr ( 30917 ) *
      That's why you have the kids legos, and your legos. My kids have a huge under-the-bed drawer of legos that they have collected from various sets over the years. Last we estimated, they have over 10,000 pieces. I have a Mindstorms set, with pieces I have added on from eBay.

      As to Solemn's original question, I always wanted a Monkey.
  • As long as I have memories, I wanted a pet bunny.

    I finally adopted Maddie on my birthday last year.

    Here's to getting the things you want! Happy Birthday!
  • At a 4th of July family party a couple years ago, my cousin handed me a violin to try. Seemed simple enough.

    So I took the violin and bow, and got ready to play--

    VREEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRR!

    Everyone looked up as a prop plane flew low overhead, but the people near the windows reported not seeing anything.

    I smirked. ;-)
  • You mentioned once before in a journal (that I can't find) that there was a musician near your house that would play in a square. He played an instrument that in the right hands could evoke images of beauty, serenity and world peace.

    His were not those hands.

    While you are practicing up perhaps you could go to the square and see if you could participate in a duet with him. I'm sure he would appreciate a musician of equal talent. (You a rank beginner and him a... uh... seasoned professional?)

    That said

  • hrm (Score:1)

    by Zeriel ( 670422 )
    Big legos. Like the hugely expensive multi-thousand piece sets. And a place to keep them stored away from cats.

    And a cello. Don't ask me why, I don't know.
  • A marimba. I've always wanted a marimba. Well, not always. Just for the past 9 or so years. The problem is that they are both big and expensive. I would prefer it if pretty trees in Honduras were cut down for my marimba, but that little extra runs about $11,000 [wwbw.com]. Even crappy marimbas cost around $5,000.

    But first I need to buy a house that has a marimba room.

    Have a good day!
  • Welcome blinder to the hell that is twinkle twinkle little star... Heh. We started our little one on violin when she turned four. My in-laws were doing day care, and one of their younger boys did the Suzuki method and volunteered to teach. The real fun started when my lovely 'helped' her practice - spending more and more time 'demonstrating' what my little one should be doing. Turns out she also had a burning desire to learn the violin, and proceeded to pick up one as well. Both of the ladies are pra
  • Saxophone. I've had dreams of playing saxophone since I was a weeeee boy, but picked French Horn because they needed them sorely in the band and were harder to find (and I like a good challenge). That and I didn't like the idea that they'd need normal reeds, which meant bothering my ma for reeds all the time. Silly me, I was just trying to be helpful to everyone but me. But yes, sax is what my heart's been longing for, to play out soulful, bluesy riffs and impressive solos and the occasional pickup to b
  • So I could do the 25 minute solo on dazed & confused.

    Happy SCREEECH Birth SCREEECH day to SCREEEECH yooooooooooou! [slashdot.org]
  • My younger stepson starting taking Viola lessons and while there was some screeching to start out with, it didn't last as long as I thought.

    In answer to your question: a bass. I've always wanted to play bass but have the musical aptitude of a tin ear in a vacuum.

  • I have discovered that my bass can get screechy when I use a bow and it has more to do with too much rosin built up on my strings than technique. Is that the case for violins, too? I figure it makes sense for kids playing to not clean their strings very well when they're done practicing.

    Speaking of which, that reminds me that I need more bass rosin.

  • violin (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 )
    You have no idea how bad a beginner's violin can sound.

    No, you're wrong. My sister failed to learn to play the violin throughout her childhood. I know exactly how bad it can sound!

  • A 1932 Deusenburg SJ Tourster-Phaeton - white body, metallic jade fenders, sand leather seats, white roof. Failing that, I'd take an SR-71 Blackbird. Failing that, a Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive.

  • Let's hope people don't start calling the ASPCA to report the sounds of a dragon torturing cats.

    And happy bday :-)

  • Congratulations on the screech box. I hope it provides lots of happiness for you. Perhaps you can get blinder to hook up an amplifier? I'll be in Minnesota next week.

    What I'd like, but never got? My own web site. Not the wimpy 'personal home page' - a real-live set of computers hooked up to the intarweb, with a permanent IP address, and programming goodness, and a place where I could host anything I want.

    I'd post .mp3's of your violin serenades, if you wanted. :-)

  • So tell me, what have you always wanted? always, always, but never stepped up and got?

    Just toys and "stuff".

    I didn't have much growing up, I didn't have much after growing up, and now I'm itching bad to get some. I wants a big flat TV, I wants a new computer, I wants some guns that go bang, I wants Legos and Lego mindstorms that go beep beep, I want R/C planes and whirly-copters, I want a bucket of those little magnetic sticks & balls that you build nifty stuff with.
  • Essentials -- you'll need a shoulder rest [sharmusic.com] and a padded chin rest [sharmusic.com] if you do not have them already. I played violin for over 10 years and I'm itching to pick it up again... it's been under the bed for too long.
  • and happy bday.

    there are enough things that i've wanted and not got myself that it's not really worth listing them or even giving them much thought. most of them don't matter anyway. i could probably think of one thing if i tried, but then would i actually use it? i don't know. i'm trying to move beyond being a learner and a collector into a doer.
  • I'm just not getting on often enough to offer one at the right day and time. Many good wishes for the coming year.

    I must say that I can't think of a single instrument that a beginner sounds good on (and those synthesizers with demo buttons do not count). The point is to make it really obvious that the new player is getting better. Though, remembering my early violin lessons and a neighbor kid's clarinet lessons, there are clearly some instruments that sound worse than others in the early stages. The tri

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