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[erika]

Practicing my $5000 bassoon makes my left hand cramp up something wicked.

In related news, these diamond shoes are too tight.

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[morally_diseased]

A $5,000 bassoon? *jawdrop*


...in retrospect, I really shouldn't be surprised. Donnie's little brother has a concert cello insured for 10 grande.

[erika]

And just think, my bassoon is fairly cheap. Cellos that cost more than a few grand are rare, whereas bassoons pretty much start at 5k and go up from there. My teacher has one that's worth roughly 20k.

[ex_rising236]

You play bassoon? I am soooooo jealous. I played bassoon in high school, but haven't been able to afford to own one since. Maybe one day, when I have a job and a house and can take out a second mortgage in order to be able to buy an instrument …

[erika]

I do! I started playing again this summer after not playing since high school, and I am sloooowly getting back into it. So far I am allowed to play scales and compositions composed of no more than 5 notes, with varying time signatures (4/4, 3/4, 6/8, and 2/4 being the ones I remember from today's lesson).

[ex_rising236]

Ah, fun.

That's the right way to do it, though. When I learned in high school, I was the kid who could learn any instrument. I had an oboe and an oboe book shoved at me with the music for a piece we were playing, I don't even remember which, but I did love the oboe. And then we had a Star Wars arrangement, and in the Star Wars suites, the bassoon has an actual line, so it was less than a month away from the concert and they shoved the bassoon at me and told me to learn to play it. I love it, but sadly, have fallen out of playing it. Would love to have one and play again, though, there is some beautiful music for bassoon and not just the Star Wars parts that it gets, but the actual classical music for it as well.

[erika]

Wait, the bassoon has a line in the Star Wars arrangement?

THAT'S SO AWESOME.

[ex_rising236]

Yes. Or at least, in the part of it that's from the piece Across The Stars. I think that in the full orchestral version, said line is also given to the cello, however, high school was a wind ensemble, so we had no cello and during a couple places the trombones had different lines, so it was JUST ME. IT WAS FECKING AMAZING. BECAUSE PEOPLE HEARD ME AND I GOT TO SIT IN THE SOLOIST SEAT.

[deathgaze]

Haha is this like #whitegirlproblems on Twitter?

I love bassoons. And cellos, or any deep bassy instrument.

[erika]

Pretty much. I said this to a few friends and then realized it just had to be immortalized on DW/lj.

Interestingly enough, I also used to play the cello. I would joke with people that I took up the bassoon because I wanted a slightly larger range and also not to have to learn any other clef.

[ajnabieh]

My chiropractor calls the hand RSI I have "Blackberry thumb." First World Diseases!

[erika]

Mmm, blackberries.

I mean, yeah. First world diseases. :D