{"id":95,"date":"2009-08-02T20:07:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=95"},"modified":"2009-08-02T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T02:07:22","slug":"viola-da-gamba-beginner-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2009\/08\/viola-da-gamba-beginner-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola da Gamba Beginner Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished a week of viola da gamba beginner lessons.  They were given at the annual conclave of the Viola da Gamba Society of America, which was in Chicago this year.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdgsa.org\/pgs\/conclave-2009\/conclave.shtml#CLASSES\">http:\/\/www.vdgsa.org\/pgs\/conclave-2009\/conclave.shtml#CLASSES<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I learned quite a bit I think, and I&#8217;m going to see if I can rent an instrument for a while and learn a bit more.  I haven&#8217;t decided yet if I want to start adding strings to my instrument repertoire.   The fingers on my left hand are already developing tough spots from the strings.  Gut is a lot more forgiving than wire, though, and the frets make it a lot easier to find a note and play it in tune than on a violin.  <\/p>\n<p>I am pretty tired of the commute.  75 miles a day to go from home to lessons on the south side of Chicago, then to work, then home again.  And an extra hour and a half in the car.  I&#8217;m glad that part is over, even if I did have a lot of fun in class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished a week of viola da gamba beginner lessons. They were given at the annual conclave of the Viola da Gamba Society of America, which was in Chicago this year. (http:\/\/www.vdgsa.org\/pgs\/conclave-2009\/conclave.shtml#CLASSES) I learned quite a bit I think, and I&#8217;m going to see if I can rent an instrument for a while and learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}