It’s PH so tutor able to put it in the afternoon (3.15pm). Again lil’ one and me sat in the studio coz we needed the aircon 😬. Hubby wandered around in the nearby mall until I went back for him an hour later. The girls had to sit with the cello on their legs, indeed it is not easy to have 4 pax and one huge cello in our small car.
Tutor is so encouraging, always complimenting “very good”. I would have screamed and scolded her for making those mistakes 😬. 自己的父母亲 are very critical. I take it that I can’t be an educator at all, I don’t have the patience and I’m very harsh / critical.
Tutor was excited over a new Ghibli music book he just got hold of and showed her the book 😂 asked if she knew Ghibli. Hmm….he probably didn’t notice the bags we were carrying - Kiki Delivery Service. It was nice of him to start playing some songs, not the full song but briefly. I started to wonder when che-che will reach that stage? Actually also why can’t Ghibli have more songs for the cello, piano and electone? It’s always the same pieces - トトロ, いつも何度でも, あの夏へ , 海の見える街 etc etc. Someone needs to program more songs in the MDR for the electone.
On the way to pick hubby up, che-che found a way to put the cello in the car with the two of them squeezing behind. One skinny and one ahem ahem 😂.
6th June (Sat)
🎻 purchase day.
Met tutor to choose her cello.
Tutor told her on Monday to prepare scales to yi yi orh orh first if he’s not around. Tutor was running a little late being caught in the jam, the staff told her she can play something first. That very instant she said that che-che and I locked eyes together and she gave me her trademark puppy-look pathetic face
and we both laughed. I knew what she was thinking “what the heck?I run out of tune most times”. She tried yi yi orh orh a little (but she was paiseh) after some persuasion from me coz it’ll be so dumb to sit there. She keeps looking at the door, waiting for tutor to push open the door. Lo and behold when he pushed opened the door, it was ‘my saviour 来了’.
Immediately he got down to business. 手脚很快 he tuned and dunno what else he did then yi yi orh orh. Then took another model which che-che was eyeing, immediately we could hear the difference! I love the deep sound.
Can you guess which model she chose?
He helped to select bow. I didn't know there's a way to select bow 🤣. Even chose the better rosin for her. When I bought her her one and only violin I didn't know what to do and took whatever rosin they had.
The cello comes in a thick cloth casing that is almost similar to a laptop bag material. Decided to get a hard casing here, which even with tutor’s teacher discount at 50% is more expensive than what I can get in Taobao. I was more worried about cracks in the case if I had Taobao-ed and I can’t refund if that’s the case. Who was to know that the staff had to drill and push back something to the wooden end pin wooden holder just to fit into the case. Wah! If I had purchased from Taobao I wouldn’t know that the cello she bought won’t be able to fit nicely into the case.
While waiting for the staff to do whatever he had to do, tutor was sharing with us the Vettori Paolo cello priced at $100K. 我听到了价钱眼睛都要掉下来。His sons' crafted cellos are priced $15K cheaper. Still we can't afford anything more than 5 digits (lemme rephrase that even for a 4 digits price we need to set budget lor!). The cello is in a transparent case, the space I wouldn't dare to step closer incase my bag sling catch a part and topple the cello over. Only they can play that cello and asked if we want to hear. Of course! I was more excited but dare not voice out, #27 che-che said she wanted to hear. My goodness! The sound is ... I don't know how to describe but it's just so 迷人, so rich.
I asked a rather dumb question if anyone new would buy this expensive cello or usually one will slowly upgrade. I'm thinking for our piano we also started with the basic model then subsequently we changed to a much better piano, so it works the same for cello? There are people who are willing to pay that much he clarified.太有钱了.
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