iris lily
1-18-13, 10:03pm
Her's something so fun: next week I'm going with my friend to have a violin appraised. This is a story about how cool our neighborhood is.
My friend Sue picked up the violin at the same time I picked up the piano again. She needed a violin to start lessons. She put our a message on our neighborhood chat list asking if anyone had a violin lying around to lend to her for a while. So a neighbor, Marsha, said "come over, I've got violins here that belonged to my husband (he is now dead.) You can take them home and try them out." Sue took two home, they both needed strings.
At the local violin shop she learned that one of them is a nice instrument and the second one is potentially VERY special. That guy in the shop donated expensive strings to the instrument, he wouldn't put on the cheaper strings she originally wanted. And he thanked her for bringing it in and mentioned worth perhaps $30,000+. Now, intrigued by this violin, she called our neighbor who is in the string section of the St. Louis Symphony. He came over, played it, and started having heart palpitations. He thinks it is VERY special, the kind of instrument that his peers would be using in the Symphony.
So next week we are taking it to--get this--the premier appraiser of stringed instruments in the U.S. who JUST HAPPENS to be in St. Louis for one day to evaluate instruments, getting stock for their spring sale. The timing is perfect! Sue has been keeping Marsha apprised the whole time but Marsha honestly doesn't want the violin back right now, she wants someone to use it. Marsha's husband did play violin in a hobby group. By trade he was in finance.
But my friend Sue won't use it to play hillbilly fiddle music, she's keeping it safely put away until the appraisal.
My friend Sue picked up the violin at the same time I picked up the piano again. She needed a violin to start lessons. She put our a message on our neighborhood chat list asking if anyone had a violin lying around to lend to her for a while. So a neighbor, Marsha, said "come over, I've got violins here that belonged to my husband (he is now dead.) You can take them home and try them out." Sue took two home, they both needed strings.
At the local violin shop she learned that one of them is a nice instrument and the second one is potentially VERY special. That guy in the shop donated expensive strings to the instrument, he wouldn't put on the cheaper strings she originally wanted. And he thanked her for bringing it in and mentioned worth perhaps $30,000+. Now, intrigued by this violin, she called our neighbor who is in the string section of the St. Louis Symphony. He came over, played it, and started having heart palpitations. He thinks it is VERY special, the kind of instrument that his peers would be using in the Symphony.
So next week we are taking it to--get this--the premier appraiser of stringed instruments in the U.S. who JUST HAPPENS to be in St. Louis for one day to evaluate instruments, getting stock for their spring sale. The timing is perfect! Sue has been keeping Marsha apprised the whole time but Marsha honestly doesn't want the violin back right now, she wants someone to use it. Marsha's husband did play violin in a hobby group. By trade he was in finance.
But my friend Sue won't use it to play hillbilly fiddle music, she's keeping it safely put away until the appraisal.