Posts made in January, 2012

How to Tune a Viola

Posted by on Jan 8, 2012 in General | 0 comments

How to Tune a Viola

This string was supposed to be an octave higher! Tuned to where it was, the string was weak in volume and loose on the fingerboard. My new hypothesis was that the viola I was renting had a broken tuning peg and that I would now need to have it repaired. Somehow, I must have broken it already!

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A Viola and Goals for 2012

Posted by on Jan 1, 2012 in General | 2 comments

A Viola and Goals for 2012

Yep, I’m joining the vast ranks of other bloggers in posting my New Year’s goals for 2012. And truthfully, it’s hard to put an interesting spin on this, so I posted a video below that at least gives you some entertaining visuals of me butchering music on a viola. Viola? Yes, a viola. No kidding. You see, I’m a longtime musician having started piano lessons when I was 9 years old. I grew up learning to play classical music on piano and rocking out in bands on...

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