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So, I'm back in the saddle with fiddle class, after missing the past two weeks and being unable to practice because of a kitchen accident. Well, that's my story, anyway.

It's getting very hard. I am going to have to practice to have any hopes of keeping up now. The teacher is giving no ground, nor should he. Hey! I'm an adult. I can handle it. Right.

When I brought the fiddle to the teacher before class for tuning, he commented on how much nicer it sounded now that it has new strings and the first set of "repairs" were repaired. There's a violin maker in class who consulted with the teacher on the sound of it some weeks ago. Cliff is blind, and couldn't tell why the thing sounded odd. David took a good hard look at it, saw what was wrong, and then made a favorable comment about it being probably the nicest instrument of any student, while pointing out some quality features. And in the intervening weeks, he did some research on it.

Turns out it's probably worth about $8k.

And I still suck.