Revival and Other Ramblings...

I'm baaaack!
I had a wonderful week of revival!
The evangelist was so musically talented;
He played the violin, keyboard,
bandura, vibraharp, and musical glasses.
He was so fun to talk to and his preaching was wonderful.
I was, personally, revived.

He also fixed my violin that has been missing
the 'E' string for a year!
(I popped it trying to tune it when I first got it!)
It was so kind of him to provide the strings,
put them on, and tune it.
He and I liked to talk about music a lot!
I particularly liked his musical glasses...

One evening he came to me before the service and said,
"I brought a really easy arrangement for the violin tonight.
You get to try it after the service!"
"Really?" I said, as he smiled.
"Are you being sarcastic?"
"ME?!?! Sarcastic?!?"He said while walking away. And the service started.
This is what he played...



Right after playing it, he looked at me and said,
"Told you it was easy!
Now you get to try it after the service!"
I simply laughed.
I told him afterwards I'd try it if
I could do it on his 1767 Stradivarius concert violin.
He simply laughed, too. lol

On the last day he return my violin,
all fixed and tuned!
He gave me lots of tips, too.
He also played it for me to 'prove' that it could, indeed,
produce beautiful music...




This is when my violin became a fiddle. lolMom turned to recording off 3 seconds too early,because while he handed it to me,he was telling me that I put way toomuch rosin on it and was showing me allof it that fell onto my violin while playing.And then he blew it into my face!
As he packed all his music supplies, I stood by the piano playing hymns out of the hymnbook.
He would occaisionally yell across the auditorium,
"Straighten that elbow! I don't like that bow hand, fix it!" lolI appreciated his help.


I just recieved my new violin lessons book in the mail Saturday and am now teaching myself.
I'm now able to play some classical music and some 'fiddle songs'.
A lady at church is really excited and asked,
"Oh, can you bring your violin Wednesday and give me a performance?"
"Sure," I said.
"But it will be the worst sounding performance you've ever heard!"
Pastor says when I'm ready I can play for congregational singing.
I told that to her and she said, "Oooh! Practice, practice, practice!!!"
She really likes the violin!

The revival was so wonderful and it was sad to see our evangelist leave.
He said he'll be back in 3 years and he wants us to do a violin duet.
I'm really looking forward to his return!

Today will be very busy and tomorrow also.
I don't think I'll be able to respond to any comments until around Wednesday.
Tomorrow I'll be quickly posting something
I just got in the mail that I've been looking forward to for months now!
Hope you all have a great day!