SYF actual day

Hi,

     We had SYF today. Many things happened, before and after. My BET: If we get Gold for SYF I will hug the Concert Master. Right after assembly, we went to C.O room to prepare. Tune instruments. Chee Kiat's Gao Hu string snapped suddenly.Told you the D string had a problem... Erm, took a long time to change, maybe too nervous. 

Changing bridge takes 3 seconds ?

Changing 2 strings takes 15 minutes ?

Wei Qian asked Chee Kiat to rub a lot of rosin on the bow hair. So much so that there was a considerable amount of difference before and after using the rosin cake.Don't you think using Violin rosin is wrong? Chinese song xiang, is quite different, it is more brittle. However, violin rosin still can be used, as it is more common. Well, everybody uses Schwarz, maybe the cheapest?

Then, on another Erhu, the A string also snapped. The end where there is blue thread broke...

That, I will change later, just in case there are not enough strings for SYF...

We went to the Hall for the last practice. As we were walking to the Hall, they wanted to go toilet. They left their instruments leaning against the wall. Wei Qian worried, "How can you leave your instrument like that." Helped him to hold, Wei Qian more relieved, maybe because Wei Qian thinks I am a bit experienced in handling?

 Practice wasn't that good. Suona so heavy, still want to raise it up, bring it down, raise it up again. Part of affecting the pitch and doing tai feng. Stared at Wei Qian, Wei Qian didn't stare back, fun thing to do to relieve stress :)

Had a break at 10 a.m. Went to C.O room at 10.30 a.m. Rested a while, before we changed into the costume. Packed all our instruments. Chee Kiat brought a spare Gao Hu, just in case the string breaks again. 1 box is heavier that the other :) The Huqin section took 1 bus, while the rest like plucked string and wood winds took another bus.

When we reached there, we alighted and went in from the back. We registered and sat down in 3 rows. Followed by that, we took out the instruments from the case and left the hard case outside the Conference Hall. 

Soon, we were in the tuning room for the last minute practice and tuning. About 5 minutes inside, that's all. The time is precious.