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Did you guys name your instruments?
My violin is named Johann.
My bow is named Pony. ( Because it has horse hair)
My extra bow is named Bach.
My old violin is named Stringette.
My old bow is named Stick. ( Everyone laughs when I tell them that.)
I really hope I'm not the only one naming my instruments. LOL.
"In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."
- Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Mine is Maureen! Back on March 13th, I posted this:
…SharonC - I agree, beautiful and I'm thinking Maureen for Maureen O'Hara, a striking flaming redhead, and as I found in a biographical sketch, "Her characters were feisty and fearless, just as she was in real life, ..."
The old curmudgeon!
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@JohnG, that's really cool!
"In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."
- Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Well, I've Called my fiddle a lot of names over the years, some of them were, well, not very nice.
Some have been repeated several times, but non have stuck so far as it permanent name.
Mark
Master the Frog and you have mastered the bow.
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@Mark, the "Well, not very nice." part made me laugh. But maybe some day a great name will come to you, and it will stick.
"In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."
- Dmitri Shostakovich.
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@SiennaAViolin -
You picked VERY cute names!
I named my 5-string Violin "Mortimer" after Mortimer Brewster, the quirky character Cary Grant played in the 1944 film, "Arsenic and Old Lace" - a marvelous black comedy.
Starting out learning to play, I imagined all sorts of Cary Grant's facial expressions across my Violin - luckily it turned out to be just as charismatic as Grant and kept me moving forward.
When I first heard how wonderfully deep, dark & mysterious my new 5-string Viola sounded I thought of a few people, but there was "Edgar" - 3 of them actually came to mind... have you seen the film "Men In Black"?
Edgar!
In a Viola Suit!
...Men In Black.
...there's something inside with a deep voice. (lol)
I'm a fan of the haunting dark writing of "Edgar Allen Poe" and the old Vincent Price films inspired by them.
Then there's also the wonderful fantasy adventures & science fiction stories of "Edgar Rice Burroughs", that my Father turned me onto as a child - "Tarzan", "John Carter of Mars" and others on Venus, the Moon, even great Westerns!
AND, Sharon was nice enough to point out that the name "Edgar" means "Fortunate & Powerful".
I know when I make my final decision on an Arcus bow, it will definitely be worthy of a name. Maybe something like "Lady Justice", "Bettie", or "Catwoman"... must keep 'the Boys' in line and bring out their best. 😁
- Emily
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Thats really cool @ELCBK. And no I have not watched Men In Black.
"In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."
- Dmitri Shostakovich.
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I love the idea of naming my fiddles but I've never done it.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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