The pochette violin is also known as kit violin, pocket violin, dancing master’s violin and Tanzmeistergeige. As the name suggests, it was designed as a pocket-travel-fiddle, often used by dancing masters, travelling minstrels and anyone else who didn’t fancy lugging a full size violin around in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
These days they are regaining popularity [...]
Entries Tagged as 'viola'
Current Obsession: The Pochette Violin
May 29th, 2010 · Lifeblog, Music
Tags:boring tunes with only low notes in·cigar box fiddle·dancing master's fiddle·fiddle·Music·pochette fiddle·pochette violin·pocket violin·public transport·Tanzmastergeige·trains·travel·travel violins·viola·violin·whistle
Little Shop of Horrors
December 21st, 2009 · Lifeblog, Music
Occasionally in my writing here, I refer to a place called The Lace Shop. This was my two-day-a-week workplace for a year or so, several years ago, until I was suddenly given the ‘I’m going to have to let you go’ phonecall because the boss’s daughter wanted my job. I wasn’t actually that upset. Clearing [...]
Tags:five string viola·made in china·Music·Pillowfish·tourism·tourist trail·video·viola
The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With my Feet
September 2nd, 2009 · Lifeblog, Music
The midi pedalboard arrived this morning! Here are the contents of the box in which it arrived, accompanied by my foot:
I was a little confused by the box of catfood that came with it (despite having become used to strange things arriving with what I order: I bought a necklace from Etsy recently which was [...]