Better day today than yesterday afternoon, no headache today - yeah!
I enjoyed my cello lesson yesterday morning and have some more pieces and fingering to work on.
I took a cello that I have on 'approval' for my teacher to look at, and she approved! I like it very much and it has a much nicer sound than my hired instrument so it is all looking positive. Mark has said that he will consider getting it for my birthday, he is so pleased I am able to enjoy playing some music again as he knows how much I have been missing it. I'm sure though he wishes I could play it like I could play my clarinet though!
Here's the beauty! Not only looks good, plays well too! It isn't anything 'special' but in my price range, I couldn't even hope to get something other than a cello like this. It is a Contemporary Chinese Make Westbury. Certainly the Chinese makes are far better now than they used to be years ago, and I am quite impressed with it. Should last me a very long time. I love it.
Added bonus is it comes as a complete outfit with the case below as well.
Which happens to be blue - one of my favourite colours! Not that, that should make any difference... It is funny but on the way to collect it last week I was wondering what colour the case would be and I was hoping it would be yellow or blue. Yellow of course would be highly unlikely, but blue more of a possibility, and blue it was! It has a few marks on it, but then being second hand, you've got to expect that. The cello however is in immaculate condition.
I don't really like the bows that it comes with. One is no good at all according to my teacher and the other is 'OK'. I am hoping that the shop will allow me to keep the bow I have got with the hired bow in exchange for these two. Something to negotiate anyway.
