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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #50 on: 10 Dec 2009, 09:41 »

I got forty dollars from my grandmother and refused to accept anything from my parents.

My Christmas was pretty sweet.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #51 on: 10 Dec 2009, 09:58 »

Um...  Did I miss a discontinuity in space-time somewhere?

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #52 on: 10 Dec 2009, 11:11 »

No, but it looks like it missed you.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #53 on: 10 Dec 2009, 11:16 »

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #54 on: 10 Dec 2009, 19:26 »

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #55 on: 10 Dec 2009, 19:50 »

I want a new violin bow. One that has more than 26 hairs on it. A brand new one would be preferable. It doesn't need to be expensive, a cheap one that doesn't squeak after I rosin it will make me happy. I'm more concerned about hitting the notes than finding the Perfect Bow Tone right now.

I'd like a pillow. Several pillows, actually, because I only have one and have had it for years and I want more than a single pillow.

My feet are cold. If someone could get me socks that actually fit me, that would be pretty awesome.

Also, some tuners.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #56 on: 10 Dec 2009, 19:53 »

dude cant you just rehair?
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #57 on: 10 Dec 2009, 19:56 »

I'd have no idea how to go about doing that. The closest music store is like an hour's drive away - where to go for someone who would rehair a bow? No idea.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #58 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:08 »

So I have to spend two thousand dollars on a gift basket for some clients in the US.
This is pretty much impossible. The most expensive one I have found is 900.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #59 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:14 »

I'd have no idea how to go about doing that. The closest music store is like an hour's drive away - where to go for someone who would rehair a bow? No idea.

Rehairing the bow, even if you have to send it away, is going to be cheaper than buying a new one.  Unless you've got a fiberglass bow.  In which case, just throw it away and buy a new one.  Shit, I kind of need to rehair mine.  Well, I so rarely play arco that it just doesn't matter.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #60 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:23 »

See, I know jack shit about violins or bows or maintenance or any of that.

Probably a good thing I said something.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #61 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:29 »

I don't know anything specific to violin bows, so they might generally be cheaper than bass bows (I know the high-end ones are just as expensive, but that's in the $100k+ range, and I'd be willing to bet that nobody on these forums has one of those).  It's worth at least looking into.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #62 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:33 »

I was probably going to buy the most basic level, like, $30 bow. Or, rather, have someone who wants to get me a present get me one.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #63 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:37 »

dude dont get a 30 dollar bow that is fucking stupid. my bow is okay and it was like 400 bucks.

save up for something decent dude.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #64 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:43 »

So I have to spend two thousand dollars on a gift basket for some clients in the US.
This is pretty much impossible. The most expensive one I have found is 900.

Someone hasn't been looking hard enough

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #65 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:45 »

dude dont get a 30 dollar bow that is fucking stupid. my bow is okay and it was like 400 bucks.

save up for something decent dude.

Ha! Good one. I make like 400 dollars in a month. This is more of a take what you can get thing.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #66 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:48 »

I spent the first five or so years of learning to play bass playing with a fiberglass bow.  It wasn't bad to learn on, or even to pedal a note at the end of a tune, but there came a time when I just needed to step up and get a legit bow (I was playing a lot more classical, and I was playing a tune for my junior recital with the bow).  It's really not that bad to have a $30 bow.  However, if you've already got a bow that's decent, then get it rehaired.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #67 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:49 »

So I have to spend two thousand dollars on a gift basket for some clients in the US.
This is pretty much impossible. The most expensive one I have found is 900.


Get 'em a certificate for this and add it to your gift basket.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #68 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:50 »

I'll look into it. It doesn't seem like a bad bow...if it is I'm just assuming I'm fucking up somehow :lol:
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #69 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:54 »

then all you probably need is a rehair.

im just saying if you have a shitty bow you are still gonna sound like shit and it's gonna blow. cello playing got a lot more fun once i got better stuff last july.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #70 on: 10 Dec 2009, 20:58 »

There comes a point where it makes sense to switch bows, but there's also a point at which it doesn't matter.  I don't know what point Zingoleb is at right now, but I am assuming he hasn't evolved beyond what bow he's got now from what he's saying.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #71 on: 10 Dec 2009, 21:03 »

Will keep that all in mind.

Ugh, wish there was someplace local, though. I miss being able to go to a music store whenever I wanted. I really just want to be able to play again, but this bow is pretty far gone. Won't even make a sound when I try and play the D-string.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #72 on: 10 Dec 2009, 22:33 »

So I have to spend two thousand dollars on a gift basket for some clients in the US.
This is pretty much impossible. The most expensive one I have found is 900.


You could just order a gift basket from an American store and have it shipped to them silly.  Trust me, I can think of about 12 stores in New York offhand that have over $2000 gift baskets.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #73 on: 10 Dec 2009, 23:18 »

All I want for Christmas is Jews.

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #74 on: 11 Dec 2009, 03:21 »

I don't know anything specific to violin bows, so they might generally be cheaper than bass bows (I know the high-end ones are just as expensive, but that's in the $100k+ range, and I'd be willing to bet that nobody on these forums has one of those).  It's worth at least looking into.

Yeah, my daughter's 'good' bow was $400 and some change.   I ensure she guards that sucker like her life depends on it.   Every time I see a bow sitting around the house my decibel level goes up about 75% until she assures me that it's one of her shit bows she left sitting on the music stand.

Sort of on topic:  I recently had it re-haired.  $50 exactly.

Sort of off topic-- In a year or so both the bass and the bow get replaced with "college" quality instead of her current "high school" quality instruments.  Budget is seven grand.  The four I've already spent on her current rig... has mostly just gone up a cat's ass.  I'm hoping to get $2-2.5k on trade for her current bass, but we'll see.   The only good thing about the expense of orchestral instruments is that my wife stopped bitching a long time ago every time I drop $300 on an ebay guitar, because seriously-- my expensive ass hobby doesn't hold a candle to keeping the kid in serious-business, planning-on-going-to-Berklee orchestra costs.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #75 on: 11 Dec 2009, 07:20 »

I would like a decent turntable.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #76 on: 11 Dec 2009, 08:13 »

I would like a job, and the ability to pay my bills.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #77 on: 11 Dec 2009, 09:23 »

So I have to spend two thousand dollars on a gift basket for some clients in the US.
This is pretty much impossible. The most expensive one I have found is 900.



Throw in a couple of hooker-type candygrams.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #78 on: 11 Dec 2009, 09:28 »

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #79 on: 11 Dec 2009, 09:56 »

So I have to spend two thousand dollars on a gift basket for some clients in the US.
This is pretty much impossible. The most expensive one I have found is 900.


Are you buying online or making one and sending it out? because you could probably throw a thousand dollars worth of wine in really easily.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #80 on: 11 Dec 2009, 14:32 »

I ended up finding a $1000 one at Dean and Deluca and chucking in a few extra things. It is actually really hard to search for places in the US that ship to the US when Google only wants to give you Australian sites, no matter how advanced your boolean is.
Luckily you can ship alcohol into Georgia now, or else I'd have been screwed.

Now I have to find some to send to Canada and Costa Rica. Where is Costa Rica anyway?
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #81 on: 11 Dec 2009, 14:40 »

I heard it's on Mars.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #82 on: 11 Dec 2009, 16:05 »

I want stuff for my pony, so that she'll be comfortable when she finally comes home (aka, when I talk my university into selling her to me). Stuff like:
A Jolly ball to play with, and a blanket to keep her warm during the frigid New England winter
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #83 on: 11 Dec 2009, 17:09 »





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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #84 on: 12 Dec 2009, 01:17 »



I also would like big muff for Christmas.

Well not too big.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #85 on: 12 Dec 2009, 04:27 »

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #86 on: 12 Dec 2009, 07:07 »

Harry, they make a Little Big Muff if that's more up yr alley.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #87 on: 12 Dec 2009, 08:54 »

I want to steal my roommate's big muff.... it's so much fun to rock out on, you can get the screechiest and dirtiest feedback if you use the right amp settings, it's like ROCK AND ROOOOOOOLLLL.

Also, I would love a new set of tires. The ones on my car are about done for.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #88 on: 12 Dec 2009, 11:04 »

I also would like big muff for Christmas.

Well not too big.

Muff?
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #89 on: 12 Dec 2009, 13:13 »

A Jolly ball to play with

Oh my god I was in a western mercantile store looking for a Christmas present for my roommate(a riding crop. no, she doesn't ride horses, just men.) and I saw these things and my brain filled with images of horses just tossing around a ball and being happy and I was just like d'aawwwww because it's so silly but so awesome.

Anyhow, all I want for Christmas is Beatles Rock Band because I am a big ol' sucker for plastic instrument games and Beatles music. Maybe Modern Warfare 2 too.

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #90 on: 12 Dec 2009, 17:41 »

I do not have any videos of Ellie playing with toys (something I need to record!), but she loves to pick up buckets, brushes, hoofpicks, and anything else within reach, and then run away with them, or fling them across the pen. :3

But here's a video of a cute horse playing with a jolly ball to make you all go "d'awwwww"
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #91 on: 12 Dec 2009, 18:00 »

i want this camera so fucking bad but i think i need to start accepting the fact that it's just not going to happen anytime soon -



i keep trying to justify the cost with my slim work discount, but given my constant pathetic financial situation i don't think spending $700 on a camera instead of $800 is really that much more responsible a purchase. oh well, camera. at least creepily touching you at work is still free.
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #92 on: 12 Dec 2009, 21:13 »

Re: Horses and Jolly Balls

I want this horse for Christmas - omg, he's so purty! Look how much he wuvs his Jolly Ball! <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52UxyjnBQTI&NR=1&feature=fvwp


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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #93 on: 12 Dec 2009, 21:39 »

Cute video, but what the hell's with the depressing music? I kept expecting a deep male voice-over to say "Two months after this video was taken, this horse was killed in a freak horse float accident."
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #94 on: 12 Dec 2009, 22:07 »

Cute video, but what the hell's with the depressing music? I kept expecting a deep male voice-over to say "Two months after this video was taken, this horse was killed in a freak horse float accident."

...I had my volume down, I didn't realize it had music!  :-o

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #95 on: 13 Dec 2009, 00:02 »

Bwhahaha Evenascence is not jollyball music
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #96 on: 13 Dec 2009, 00:38 »

I want this pogo stick: http://vurtegopogo.com/sticks/V3.html

it can jump 5 to 6 feet in the air!
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #97 on: 13 Dec 2009, 05:24 »

that sounds like a good idea

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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #98 on: 13 Dec 2009, 14:52 »

Okay who wants to help me find some $500 gift baskets in Canada
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Re: All I Want for Christmas
« Reply #99 on: 13 Dec 2009, 15:01 »

I just want my family back.

Also this.
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