My mom rediscovered an old violin from my granny on our attic today and gave it to me. It just has two intact strings, the sound post seems to be loose, it has some scratches (but just on the lacquer) and the bow looks already very tousled.
I think the best is to bring it to a violin-maker to see how much it would cost to make it playable again.

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Jup, I'm finally at home but my and Alex' luggage just wanted to stay in London a bit longer...I hope that I get it soon in one piece...(her laptop with all our film and picture-stuff was in the baggage ( Read more... )

At the Gold Coast we had a great appartement with  a nice surrounding, we had our fun in Surfers Paradise, although it was...rainy (of course). 2 hours after we landed there our dear fluffy rain-cloud had reached us^^ We slowly should start to think of a name for it...it was following us like a trained dog ( Read more... )

So FINALLY some photos...just I still don't get this <> - thingie ( Read more... )

Finally a little new update ( Read more... )

So today my luggage arrived...FINALLY ( Read more... )

So I'm finally in Sydney :D ( Read more... )

So my last evening and I'm already sooo excited about tomorrow, I'm so looking forward to the trip :D ( Read more... )

The past two days we had a bigger storm with sometimes orcan-strength going through Austria which caused many damage. We had the bad luck that two of our beautiful large (min 20 meters and going up, some are really large) old trees didn't manage the storm. One completely  broke leaning now against a younger one which slowly gets disrooted because ( Read more... )

I wanted to give image editing a try and set into my head that creating a wallpaper can't be that difficult. A fitting programme called "Gimp" (a free version of a photoshop-like programme) is quickly found and downloaded and after reading the first three advices i felt in shape to go on work. Pictures I wanted to use were quickly found and the ( Read more... )