Tuesday, May 18, 2010

violin fingers

this past weekend i went to omaha to visit my family and play a gig with my sister- dinner music for my mom's women's retreat {the last one she planned before she moves to chicago in june}
 {and yeah, sister and i decided to match and wear black and yellow. cause we're awesome and never too old to be matchy-matchy}

i know it looks like we're just making goofy faces, but we're really that {some might say overly} dramatic. 
but whatever, we have fun.

and what was supposed to be 1 hour of dinner music, turned into 2 {which was fine with me, because little sister and i don't get many opportunities to play to together anymore and we had plenty of music} and if you've never seen a violinists fingers after 2 straight hours of playing {and a 20 minute warm-up} let me show you:
can you see all the little black lines? it looks really weird, but it doesn't last long. it had already mostly worn off 20 minutes later, when i took the photo. the little indentations from the strings are already totally gone.
it somehow feels oddly satisfying- like i've been playing super hard {which i guess, technically, i was}

5 comments:

  1. The matchy-matchy yellow/black is FABULOUS! :)

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  2. you guys are way too adorable. makes me with i had a sister. oh wait... i have you! miss you way too much. and have fun catching up on glee, last weeks was awesome!

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  3. (Hey, I finally got it to work!)

    You 3 look so cute in your coordinating outfits! Glad you got the opportunity to play with Joy again.

    Missing you!

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  4. You and your sister look adorable in the matching yellow. There are days I wish I had a sister and days I'm glad I didn't because then I would probably have had to share a room.

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  5. I love your color coordination... oh the dented fingers, two of my kids are learning to play and they moan over their fingers. :)

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