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Sunday, November 11th, 2018

🦋 Tin-can Cello: swing low

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🦋 Armistice

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🦋 Tin-can Cello: #suzukibook1

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Thursday, November 8th, 2018

🦋 Tin-can Cello: first blues tune!

I've nearly learned first position well enough to play the lead for "Drinkin Wine (spo-dee-oh-dee)"! Was able to make my way through it with a little confusion, it will sound great in the near future...

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Monday, October 29th, 2018

🦋 Tin-can Cello: my first lesson

I had my first cello lesson today. Teacher was intrigued in the cello and interested in helping me with technique. Said it would be a challenge as a lot of his teaching techniques are specific to cello geometry, which differs in key ways from that of the tin-can cello.

Advice for left hand is learning first position, with scales and Suzuki tunes. Thumb position is key, the thumb should be in back of the neck or even on the outside of the neck. Right hand, my fingers should cradle the frog. The angle of bow hair to string is different than when playing violin, the bow hair is facing the floor, so angled away from you. (These two bits of advice are by themselves worth the cost of the lesson.) We tried playing Humorèsque together. Vibrato was mentioned.

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🦋 Dilruba bridge: rough outline

Looks like I will not need a jeweler's saw, just the drill press and files are working fine.

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Sunday, October 28th, 2018

🦋 Cutting up a dilruba bridge

I am following (loosely) the plan David Courtney writes about at Chandrakantha.com for setting up a dilruba bridge.

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The idea is to keep the rigidity of the shape but open up its structure, to reduce mass. I'll cut the marked areas away using a combination of drill press and fret saw (the latter of which I'll need to find, and acquire a jeweler's blade).

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Sunday, October 21st, 2018

🦋 Tryptich with Celliphant #tincancello

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Saturday, October 20th, 2018

🦋 Tin-can Cello: setup complete

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I mean I'm sure I'll be doing bits of setup here and there for months. But for all intents and purposes. Here's what it sounds like... pardon the atrocious playing :), I've just now contacted a local cello teacher!



It's funny, because my original estimate for best-case when I might finish the cello was "end of September". Not bad considering! This whole project has taken like 4 months from conception to execution.

Update from Sunday morning: wow! The instrument stayed nearly in tune overnight! First time that has happened. A couple of things to be done this morning: I forgot to put parchment on the bridge for the A and D strings; I want to re-drill the string holes in the pegs; some of the pegs need a little more peg dope. I ordered fine tuners.

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Friday, October 19th, 2018

🦋 Tin-can Cello: first time out

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The Tin-can Cello is born! I was at Menzel Violins in Livingston today to get some help with the setup and everybody was interested in it. One cellist played a few bars!

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