Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Missing an old friend
Yesterday I took a very good friend to hospital for surgery. We made the trip together, I delivered the patient into the competent hands of the surgeon and then left alone. How lonely it feels to depart when leaving a companion to their fate. A cracked back is no small issue, but around 10 days is what seems to be required. In this case, the hospital is the Luthier's violiin workshop, and the patient is my wonderful 200 year old violin. How I miss it already!
While it is in the skilled hands of the luthier it is also getting a new tailpiece, a new sound post fitted and a new bridge. So it's going to return to me good as new, or rather....good as old. This old violin couldn't possibly have all the qualities and potential for wonderful sound if it wasn't so aged. It has maturity and depth beyond what I have discovered yet. It has breathed life into performances for well over two hundred years so, as with all things, it needs to be maintained and kept in good working order. The crack in its back probably happened as a result of glue drying out, even though I'm careful to keep the humidity in it's case at the right level.
How I'm looking forward to getting it back as the sound it can produce is so much better than my 1929 boyhood violin that I also use for practice. It's sad to let it go for repair, but it is also exciting to look forward to it coming back again in even better condition than before. Maybe it will be able to make an even better sound, a wider range of tonal colour. How exciting! It's good to have something to look forward to.
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