Posted by Goose on March 28, 2017 at 18:46:33 from (70.198.6.76):
In Reply to: OT posted by 55 50 Ron on March 28, 2017 at 15:27:32:
I have a violin that needs a complete restoration. The finger board fell off, the sound post is loose inside, and the entire unit needs to be disassembled and re-glued.
My grandfather gave it to me when I was about 12. He'd originally bought it in St. Louis about a hundred years ago for one of my uncles. Then one day I was hanging around with Grandpa and we came across the violin. He said, "Here. Rudy never showed any interest in it, you may as well have it".
It has a label inside that says, "Antonio Stradivarius facibat anno 1720". It's probably a copy. I'm not naïve enough to think it's the real thing. Even if it was, by 1720 Stradivarius was past his peak.
I learned to play it somewhat as a kid, but was hampered by my left index finger missing to the second joint as a result of a childhood accident. And I was already missing the finger when Grandpa gave me the violin.
BTW, I've never seen the missing finger as a handicap. I worked in Avionics in the Marine Corps, and sometimes while working on wiring and electronic gear on jet fighter planes I could do things with my left hand that I couldn't do with my right 'cause I didn't have the extra finger in the way.
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