Been traipsing round the island in search for a new cello. The present one has reached its maximum potential, more or less, and is on its way to a new owner soon. I feel like a proud parent giving away the child for marriage, only the sex is reversed - my cello is male.
So if selling your cello is like giving away your kid to a marriage, buying a cello feels like a marriage of sorts. Considering I spend a lot more time with it then with my family, or even my house, that is not an inappropriate analogy. And I haven't even started on where it normally resides when I play it. In short, finding a new cello is a big thing. It's like going on blind dates - sometimes you get pleasantly surprised, although it doesn't look very good, sometimes it looks gorgeous but sounds wonky, other times it's PMSing and you decide to come back another day to see if it sounds better after some modifications.
So far I haven't found anything good yet. I think my expectations are too high; I expect it to be an instant love affair the way it was with my current cello, but it feels more like a mercenary evaluation of worth now. I suppose it has to be, if I'm going to spend something like $10k on it and be permanently broke for a long long time to come.
hmph. why am i doing this?
