Cool! Jazz and medicine! Sounds like an awesome combination of skills!

Lol... for the end one! Yes... the TAFE/tradehall route is pretty much pooh-poohed out of existence by the classical people... sigh, that would have been the perfect fit... but apparently we need to feel

It is more formal in the Classical realm... definitely, but I find that there is also a preference for things that are quantifiable but ultimately... meaningless. It is like training musicians to be mindless

Yes, I am the only "survivor" from my graduating class of violins... the attrition is real... and nothing wrong with being teachers either, we need all of that to keep the pipeline alive!

Music does help us regain that little spark!

Haha... a bit too true!

Yeah, the compact design and good ïn the hand" weight is definitely a plus!

Oh Kickstarter is definitely dangerous... the amount of mental gymnastics I go through to justify that I need something!

We have a tree guy who lives down the road, and he asks if we want the mulch as it saves him a fee for the green tip!

So that is a maybe???

Wow, that is one really nice piece of silver! You are putting it in the next raffle right?

If you ask me... it was a change from musicians being "craftsmen" to being "artistes"... attracts a different personality...

Like a piano, but completely different!

Shhhh....

Most of the pieces I play I haven't heard before, so it is a bit of a period of discovery when I first break out the violin on it... but it also helps to be able to hear things in your head as well! I

Oh, I thought that potatoes would just grow anywhere! Huh... mixed planting, that hadn't occurred to me, but i makes sense!

Definitely 4200...

We are getting better and better with the admin, logistics, and publicity stuff... we started from zero, and now people are saying how smoothly everything seems to run for us... of course, they don't see

Yeah, we also did a Dial before you dig for the block... the cables are supposed to be at least 60 centimetres below ground and have those warning things in layers above... nothing in this case, and it

I'm starting to find the same... I prune back, and my parents-in-law or my mum come around and slash it back much more than I would have every thought possible!