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Sensuous! (Original Post) ohiosmith Mar 2013 OP
Damn! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #1
I used to regret having never learned to play the violin.... Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #2
Oh My God! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #3
right In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #4
I played viola in Jr. High pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #8
dontcha? Dontcha? Dontcha? In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #12
The viola is cool, but it's hard to match that rich, sexy resonance of the cello pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #22
lov sax In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #24
Despite your typo, I hear you! pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #25
indeed In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #26
Spring is nature's way of saying, "LET'S PARTY!" - Robin Williams pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #27
just so you know In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #28
And, from what I've seen of you... pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #29
and real life experiences to back it up too In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #30
Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me? pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #31
teh hot In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #32
Nope. You need to rethink this. Moondog Mar 2013 #5
I think, perhaps, Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #6
Indeed! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #7
You prefer the washboard? Spoons perhaps? Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #10
As do I! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #14
Ukuleles being your favorite? Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #20
Banjo pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #21
The one good thing Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #23
A wonderful instrument. With a great tone and atmospherics. Moondog Mar 2013 #9
I am much too polite to point that out! Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #11
lol In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #13
Indeed you are. Moondog Mar 2013 #15
Gallantry is not dead! Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #16
Nay, madame, it is not. Moondog Mar 2013 #17
I saw Piatagorsky play once pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #18
I can identify! Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #19
"No, vegetables are sensuous. Humans are sensual." - Mrs. Wormer, "Animal House" talkingmime Mar 2013 #33

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
22. The viola is cool, but it's hard to match that rich, sexy resonance of the cello
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:31 PM
Mar 2013

It's like the sax of the strings.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
5. Nope. You need to rethink this.
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:04 PM
Mar 2013

I actually dated, briefly, a concert cellist in my flaming youth.

Great lady. Very attractive. But she had these hornlike callouses on the tips of the fingers of her dominant hand.

Very uncomfortable.

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
6. I think, perhaps,
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:08 PM
Mar 2013

callouses would be a small price to pay for the pleasure of creating the sheer beauty that comes from the cello.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
9. A wonderful instrument. With a great tone and atmospherics.
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:11 PM
Mar 2013

I was just being a typically self-centered male focused upon his own pleasure. Pay no attention to me.

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
15. Indeed you are.
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:16 PM
Mar 2013

And well bred person that I am, I elected to save you from having to soil your hands to do the societally necessary thing.

Heh.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
18. I saw Piatagorsky play once
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:19 PM
Mar 2013

And one of his star pupils, Nathaniel Rosen. I was in ecstasy. Callouses, schmallouses--I think I almost turned gay on the spot!

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