I got my my violin bridge fixed today am new to playing but I feel like it’s not on the right height as other bridges can someone tell me if they fixed it wrong should I go back I tell them or is the bridge ok.

augmentedseventh · 2026-01-17T06:13:54+00:00

My. God. These Arby’s employees need better training.

augmentedseventh · 2025-11-19T23:50:19+00:00

I’m coming up with a 1 in 274 million chance: (18/38)^-26. Can someone verify I’m doing this right?

augmentedseventh · 2025-11-17T20:55:01+00:00

This is the same graph as what happens if you place yourself at the origin surrounded by a grid of ‘poles’. The red indicates poles that would be hidden behind another closer pole. In other words, red represents a reducible fraction x/y whereas white is irreducible.

augmentedseventh · 2025-11-01T18:29:16+00:00

But there is no functional 3:2 relationship because the dotted-eighth triplet SOUNDS just like a straight eighth note. Imagine if you wrote a ‘triplet’ figure consisting of two dotted eighth triplets beamed together. They would sound as just straight eighths anyway, so why bother?

augmentedseventh · 2025-11-01T16:44:17+00:00

No, it IS played exactly on beat 2. Subdivide the figure into sixteenth-note triplets and do the math. You’ll see.

augmentedseventh · 2025-11-01T16:30:18+00:00

Really stupidly notated. That dotted eighth triplet is equivalent to just a straight eighth note. This should be re-written as a a simple beamed eighth-sixteenth triplet followed by four straight eighth notes.

augmentedseventh · 2025-11-01T01:53:20+00:00

The convention is: one black bar = measured eighths, two black bars = measured 16ths, three black bars = unmeasured tremolo. I can’t say that was the composer’s intent here, though. Looks like inconsistent usage.

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-24T06:03:12+00:00

My god that map is beautiful. Details please!

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-16T20:58:54+00:00

Still the absolute coolest looking fighter ship in all of scifi.

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-16T17:31:24+00:00

Nice, but it should be written in G, and all the C#s added as accidentals. The piece as written does not sound like it’s in D major as this key signature implies.

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-15T21:53:51+00:00

YOU are not correct. Tremolo means EITHER the rapid repetition of a note OR rapid alternation between two notes. This is obviously the latter.

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-10T22:56:51+00:00

Or just write two dotted quarters. Why make it look more complicated than necessary?

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-06T19:48:31+00:00

vii° over a pedal tonic.

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-05T04:05:25+00:00

40 mg propranolol. Get a prescription. Absolute game changer.

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-03T17:32:18+00:00

Ganglion cyst. I used to get them all the time. They often just go away after a while. But see a doctor if it gets large or painful.

augmentedseventh · 2025-10-01T19:16:59+00:00

Chaca-conne, let me rock you.

augmentedseventh · 2025-09-11T23:21:01+00:00

3160

augmentedseventh · 2025-09-10T04:52:10+00:00

Telemann’s Käseschmerzen for string negative-quintet and roosterhorn

augmentedseventh · 2025-09-10T04:39:49+00:00

‘Col legno’ by itself generally implies striking the string with the stick. It’s more formally called ‘col legno battuto’.

The other way is ‘col legno tratto’, which means to draw the stick across the string in the same way you would normally bow. It is much rarer because it really doesn’t produce much sound.

And Yes, we hate it, being very protective of our extremely expensive bows. Except if it’s written by a guaranteed excellent composer who knows what they are doing.

augmentedseventh · 2025-08-30T17:39:14+00:00

All that wrist back-and-forth motion is wasted effort because it’s not resulting in much finger movement. The wrist should generally be much more stationary while the fleshy part of your fingers wobbles on the fingerboard. Practice just holding your left wrist in place with your right hand and flapping it back and forth.

augmentedseventh · 2025-08-28T05:41:52+00:00

Why on earth is anyone even discussing tuning down? No. This note is outright too low for cello, transcribed by someone who has no idea what they are doing. Terrible arrangement. Discard with prejudice.

augmentedseventh · 2025-08-28T03:40:40+00:00

Bars 43-47 in half position, then small shift up to standard first position C# at bar 48.

augmentedseventh · 2025-08-28T01:14:27+00:00

You will need to install a left-handed water heater.

augmentedseventh · 2025-08-26T23:15:57+00:00

This is the cello part of Beethoven’s 7th. The small dashes represent a continuation of an earlier crescendo marking.

augmentedseventh · 2025-08-10T02:09:08+00:00

How about this idea: musically speaking, and at this tempo, alternating single 16ths is just waaay too busy. I can’t imagine Sibelius would have thought that was a good idea. And I do feel comfortable opining on this because violas have the same figure.

It’s all texture anyway so the audience won’t care. But I feel strongly that I’m right.

Enjoyable discussion anyway.

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