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It seems like I have a few new members to say "Hi" to after my 2 weeks away from my Fiddlerman family.
Feel free to drop me a note to say hello or point me in the right direction of your Intro post.
I see we have a new project to crack on with, too.
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Do you feel like the world is passing you by? Welcome Home Terry
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Welcome back
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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Kevin M. said
Do you feel like the world is passing you by? Welcome Home Terry
Thanks Kevin. But no, I feel my world has just grown a little more having met so many lovely people in Italy.
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Fiddlerman said
Welcome back
Thanks Pierre, I missed 3 things while on vacation, my violin, this web-site and the English weather.
(spot the untruth above?)
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LOL - I was thinking WHAT!!!! before I got to the (spot the untruth above?) part.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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Welcome back! I think if I get to go to Italy for my 50th birthday... in 3 1/4 years...then Violetta is going with me... I want to be arrested for playing the violin in a fountain...well... just kidding but I do want to knit and play the violin in Italy....is that so much to ask for ? Nice to see you!
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Welcome back! I think if I get to go to Italy for my 50th birthday... in 3 1/4 years...then Violetta is going with me... I want to be arrested for playing the violin in a fountain...well... just kidding but I do want to knit and play the violin in Italy....is that so much to ask for ? Nice to see you!
Haha, funny!
My teacher advised me not to take it coz of the pressure and temperature in the cargo hold.
Plus a violin case in the cabin might have worried a few people! Kapeesh?
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Welcome back Terry. You better get crackin. Lots to learn. Missed you btw.
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Thanks Tony, I'm going to print off and practice the new project tomorrow
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Did you hear any good Italian violin music on your trip, Terry?
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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I read where most if not all the airlines allow a musical instrument to be carried on as baggage. So, if I went with my 'baby', there wouldn't be any cargo hold on her.
"If you practice with your hands you must practice all day. Practice with your mind and you can accomplish the same amount in minutes." Nathan Milstein
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Let me see...take my Made in China violin with me to Italy OR take a few grand with me and by an authentic Italian violin? I want me a NICE souvenir made in Italy!!
@CPO...playing the violin in a fountain!! Now that would be a story to tell the kids and grandkids...(when I get them...YEEEAAARRRSSS from now, I hope.)
@ Terry- I happen to have been away for three days, (away from my computer) and see new names and forums when I got on tonight!! Two weeks from now, we may have an extended family and step-family, lol. More the merrier!
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein
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Heard lots of great Italian music on my 'cultural' trip, but as far as having a couple of grand spare to bring back a good quality Italian instrument? Catch22, the holiday cost me the equivalent of a new violin so there were no spare Euros in my pocket to buy one.
Luckily, I didn't see any for sale so the temptation wasn't there 
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Sounds like the perfect scenerio to buy and learn air violin, huh? lol 
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein
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This thread has an interesting segue (not the two-wheeled transport, which are a kick in the ass btw), and not that the original thought of this thread isn't totally interesting, lol; but the concept of traveling with your violin.
I just got back from Hawaii on Monday and my flight back was the first time, in 40yrs of flying that I'd ever seen a violin brought into the cabin of a plane. It was GREAT to see, because I had the same concerns about traveling with one; I'd never do it because I feel about the delicacy of my violin as I do of my computer or camera; I'd NEVER port either of those in cargo.
This violin (4/4) fit just fine in the overhead and nobody, including the crew, had any problem with it being stowed there. So I'd say it's a very doing thing.
A lot of people on this site surely travel with their violins, any advice/experience???
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Was it in a hard case, Fred?
My case has some sort of rigid structure under the outer fabric, but I would never trust it to withstand someone cramming a roll-aboard on top of it in an overhead bin.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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Diane, it was actually very much like my cases; not hard case (wood or aluminum or kevlar, lol), but not soft; it's sort of the rigid molded foam with cloth cover; it would easily sustain 40 - 50 lbs of external pressure.
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I'll bear this in mind when I'm ever asked to play in the open air ampitheatre in Verona!
Air Violin! 
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I am with you Terry! I am aiming for 2015.... 🙂 Invited or not..I plan to play in Italy.... I have heard the folks from Paris will spit on me.
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