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These posts are my musings and cover many topics.  Some posts will be observations that I have made over my lifetime...some will be what I call, truisms.  Truisms that I have developed from having to deal with the tough situations life sometimes deals us.  I developed these little philosophies to help me avoid a situation in the future or  to allow me to have a better outcome the next time around.  All observations, truisms , and whatever other post this blog contains are  based on my own personal experiences and  opinions.  Hopefully, some post will be of some help to someone in a situation or  give someone another perspective...another way of looking/thinking about a situation that is helpful.  I love writing these posts and I appreciate you  reading them :-)

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"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."- Gibran

A Cello Journey....Finding My Heart's Voice.....(Part Two)

9/4/2013

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Today is the perfect day to start part 2 of my cello journey tale.  It was the first lesson of the music year . It was so amazing and filled with such excitement and positive energy,  I  knew that this is what I  have been working towards all these past several years....hour after hour...day in and day out.    I am at a point in my cello journey that was just a hope and a dream  many decades ago.

My second chance started 6 1/2 years ago after moving into a new neighborhood 1 1/2 yrs before that.  I was trying to make new friends and joined a bell choir at a local church. It was fun and I loved playing those bells.  The woman leading us was a violinist in the community orchestra and another bell ringer, a violist, was a member also.  Week after week I listened to these ladies talk about orchestra happenings and I kept thinking....this could have been me!  I admit to feeling regret of what might have been.   I told them my story and my passion and love for the cello and one day the leader, Lois, said she had a name of a reliable and trustworthy luthier...why don't you see about getting a cello?  I knew as soon as she said that, I would do it !  Things happened so fast after that, I  have always felt it was fate and have felt that many many times over the past 6 1/2 yrs.

   This luthier had just received 2 cellos and one was still unsold.....within a few days I went to pick up my cello.  I was so lucky to have someone trustworthy as I was clueless about how to buy a cello.....it was a nice cello I later found out.  I asked him about a teacher.  I told him what kind of person I wanted as  a  teacher....experienced....                                                                            serious...kind....and would take me seriously...this wasn't a lark or a hobby.  This was my dream !  He thought a bit and finally said....Carole.  Although, she had never had an adult student before,  as we talked on the phone she agreed to teach me and after a few  more minutes of chatting, she agreed to come the following Wed. The future would show that  that  was my lucky day !

Wednesday came and Carole handed me the bow and she said.....you hold that bow like you have been playing all these years....I know you had a good teacher (Mr. Liberti).  Then she said...I give my kids "froggy" stickers where their thumb should go...do you....words never left her mouth when I said..yes !!  I want anything that will help me move along and learn .....so , for a few months I had a froggy sticker on the back of my cello's neck.....Carole is a smart and experienced teacher....it was a simple thing and so effective..I eventually made a transparent little circle so it couldn't be seen but I could feel it :-)  Ok, so now the world knows I had a froggy sticker...but,  you have to start somewhere:-)  Right? :-) 

Lessons started and I was breezing thru books every few months....Carole said my muscles remembered what they had to do .   To me it was a miracle as it was so long that I played/learned.....I went at a steady clip through all the materials  for about a year or maybe a bit more before things started slowing down a bit.  I was on the road to my lifetime dream.    

Then at about 6 months...just before the rehearsals began for the Christmas program at the community Orchestra..Carole said I should join the Orchestra...she is principal cellist there (1st chair-section leader).   The Christmas program was easy she said and the only advice she would give me was to.....do no harm !
She had such faith in me to risk her reputation on what I would do...I had only been learning for 6 months.   I asked her a few times if she was worried I would mess up...no, she said. Let's just say for more than a few months I was playing a lot of "air" cello.  I had a wonderful stand-mate...a young man...who always watched my back and was a huge help.  Believe me, I needed all the help I could get:-)

There was a whole lot of work , excitement, and the joy of getting the cello of my dreams ahead of me.....continued in part 3.

A quote that describes ,better than my words can say, how I feel about my cello journey:

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller

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