For Samantha

I love to take things apart and put them back again.

I'm getting ready to work on a violin and potentially do some things to it that I don't really understand just yet. You know, you'd think as long as I've been around these instruments that I would know a little more. The technical stuff is usually left to the experts, though, so I've always taken my violins to someone else to have work done.

I have to cut a bridge and possibly move a soundpost. And new strings, of course. I hope the thing still plays when I'm done with it.

Samantha is waiting....