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I'm... not really sure how to feel right now.
I've just given my mother permission to donate my cello to the high school in Joplin - the town that got hit really badly with a tornado last spring. They lost all their instruments in the storm.
On the one hand, I'm not really likely to ever play it again. I don't have the time management skills to arrange to play it now in college, and I honestly don't really think I have the motivation to do so after I graduate. The kids in Joplin will definitely get more use out of it than I do.
On the other, well... I've played the cello since fifth grade, and I've had that cello since... god, I think since eighth or ninth grade. All through high school, definitely - ever since I got tall enough to play a full-sized cello. We rented it pretty much until we'd paid enough to buy it outright, and it's gotten fixed up a lot over time, to the point that I think half the parts of the instrument were ones we got replaced - new bridge, new endpin, new fingerboard, bunch of cracks closed up. I think we may even have replaced the soundpost at one point. It's gone from a crappy rental cello to a really good instrument. And, well, I've had it for a long time.
I only really started to enjoy music once I got the chance to make it; I know I enjoyed it a lot better than I ever really did any sort of visual art. A lot of my friends in high school were ones I knew through orchestra.
I think it started out as a school cello, so I guess it's really only fitting that it ends up as one again. So long, Woody. Hopefully you'll make the kids in Joplin as happy as you've made me.
I've just given my mother permission to donate my cello to the high school in Joplin - the town that got hit really badly with a tornado last spring. They lost all their instruments in the storm.
On the one hand, I'm not really likely to ever play it again. I don't have the time management skills to arrange to play it now in college, and I honestly don't really think I have the motivation to do so after I graduate. The kids in Joplin will definitely get more use out of it than I do.
On the other, well... I've played the cello since fifth grade, and I've had that cello since... god, I think since eighth or ninth grade. All through high school, definitely - ever since I got tall enough to play a full-sized cello. We rented it pretty much until we'd paid enough to buy it outright, and it's gotten fixed up a lot over time, to the point that I think half the parts of the instrument were ones we got replaced - new bridge, new endpin, new fingerboard, bunch of cracks closed up. I think we may even have replaced the soundpost at one point. It's gone from a crappy rental cello to a really good instrument. And, well, I've had it for a long time.
I only really started to enjoy music once I got the chance to make it; I know I enjoyed it a lot better than I ever really did any sort of visual art. A lot of my friends in high school were ones I knew through orchestra.
I think it started out as a school cello, so I guess it's really only fitting that it ends up as one again. So long, Woody. Hopefully you'll make the kids in Joplin as happy as you've made me.