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Works for me? (files.ikt.id.au)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Let's be real, do you really need anything more than that? 

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Plus, if you make $100k per month and live like this, you've probably got $98500 left at the end of the month. You don't need to have too many months like that before you don't need to work anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    This. The goal is to never have to do this shit ever again.

    I have a colleague that just left the industry to become a violin luthier. Motherfucker doesn't even know how to play yet. That's how far they want to get from anything related to their work life.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    Not sure you need to know how to play them, to sell them. Heck, I had a bow re-stringing apprenticeship under a guy named Howard Needham. He can repair any damage done to any violin. He doesn't play a lick. He ensures that at least one of his apprentices can properly play a scale to test the instruments. Or he used to anyway. Haven't talked to him in a couple decades, so he may not be with us anymore as he was in his late 60s back in '99-'00

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, that's what my colleague told me. They did specify that the luthier school requires that they can play a little, but not much.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Once you learn, your fingers never forget. I haven't had a lesson in almost 3 decades at this point. I pick mine up and practice once a month or so, but I can still just whip out songs at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately I never learned to sight read, and only play by ear. I can "read" music, slowly. I just can't read it at tempo.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Practicing every month is the whole reason you can still play.

    I haven't touched my French horn or piano in years and I couldn't just sit down and play anything, and I was really good at both.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Well to be totally honest, there was a decade and a half that I didn't touch the thing. Took me a few days of practicing for about an hour to get the skills back, but that also could be because while I wasn't playing strings for that decade and a half, I was still tooting around on my woodwinds and brass. Love a French Horn. I should see if I can find a used one.

    I have most of an orchestra in my spare room. I still need a good xylophone to round out my percussion, a French Horn and a Sousaphone to fill out my brass, a Bass Flute for my winds and a harp for a complete string set.

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