Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! I'm a Violinist and doing what I love is often interestingly contrasted with the reality of getting to do what I love...
22 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...
20 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash Sigh... my wife and I have pretty much been performers all our lives... we just play music, do it to the best of our ability, and then leave. We're both sort of shy-ish people who like our own company and the peace and...
19 Nov 2022 2 minute read 1 comment bengy
When in a new place... you really have to try and figure out what the decent breweries and wineries are! This is especially true when you relocate to the other side of the planet... and getting your old favourites would be prohibitively expensiv...
18 Nov 2022 4 minute read 1 comment bengy
... and even a few were actually completed! It has been a busy time in the garden over the last couple of weeks. I've found that I've been putting in an hour or two in the morning on most days... and the effort is starting to pay off. Of course,...
15 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...
13 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Okay... technically, this is the second concert of my new early music ensemble, but the first one was just a solo violin affair and we didn't have a name sorted out yet, just a sort of "working" title that was to be settled later on! So, this is...
12 Nov 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
I've been trying to get the kids interested in some space stuff ever since they have been little... but in Europe, it was always quite tricky to get out to see stuff, there was always too much light, especially in the Netherlands with the compac...
11 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
... and after the fortepiano was tuned the other day, it was time to get the French double manual harpsichord into shape. This one is tuned to 1/6 comma Werckmeister at A=415Hz which is something that one of my bosses used quite often in one of...
9 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sigh... of course, in the week before a concerto performance on the d'amore, I will manage to snap several strings. This is what you get for practicing! They would last much longer if I didn't play them every day... Anyway, this time, I managed...
6 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Recently, a student gave me a small bag of Kumquats. I knew about these little citrus fruits from when I was a child as our family had a little tree, but I never really took to eating them. However, I really did want to learn how to make somethi...
