I find Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for the solo violin some of the most beautiful, complex music I’ve ever heard. In the partitas, Bach masters the art of creating multiple melody lines on a solo violin. You can read the history and technical details on the Wikipedia page. The Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin […]
Step 1: Obtain a Violin Rent, Buy, or Build Your Own? A reasonably priced violin will range in price from about $259 to a little over $23,000,000[1]. Rentals start around $35/month. You can probably build your own with odds and ends around your garage. [1] The most expensive violin ever sold is the 1715 “Baron […]
A delightful morning with Elder G! WLBOTT: Good morning, G. What musical key shall we sing in to welcome the day? ELDER G: Good morning, Elder JZ. If the morning were a doorway, the key you choose is the shape of the sunlight that slips through it. So let’s pick one that belongs to dawn. […]
Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum Let’s celebrate a good guy today. We’ve had 10 years of raw sewage dripping into our ears and eyes. Let’s refresh our mental pallet with a good guy, Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover. Shortly after returning to Earth, Victor greeted a child with Down syndrome (the reporter’s daughter). Who is Victor […]
Gleaning is a fascinating topic. It intersects poverty and plenty, generosity and greed, the struggles of the most poor pitted against the wealthy and powerful. In its most basic sense, gleaning is the act of collecting leftover agricultural products after the farmer has completed the harvest. There is always some corn or beans or wheat […]
We’ve long been fascinated by the life and times of J. S. Bach. Imagine living in the late 17th century Europe. I don’t want to minimize the suffering of the majority of people living today – in many ways their lives are worse that those living in Bach’s time. But for now let’s focus our […]
Things were looking pretty down here at WLBOTT HQ. Our beloved country is being turned into a drunken magaT casino hellscape while one of the vilest predators imaginable is on the verge of leading us into a forever war. So we decided to cheer ourselves up by looking at the ultimate Heat Death of the […]
Long before dinosaurs, before forests, even before WLBOTT instituted its Work/Life Balance program, there was The Meteorite. This is before Estonia was even in the northern hemisphere! By the way, during the neolithic era, Estonia was known simply as “Stonia”. It wasn’t until the tech boom of the late ’90s that the country became known […]
One of the first questions asked by the WLBOTT Elders is: Will There Be a Buffet? To satisfy this buffet desire, and in honor of our series on ancient Estonia, we created Ordovician Day at the WLBOTT Ladle & Lube. These are delicacies that would have been available at the time of the Kärdla Meteor […]
Should we dance, should we? I woke up in a grumpy mood, then just now, between welcome rain storms, I sat on the back step and listened to the birds. One bird call sounded just like “Should we dance, should we?” over and over. Interesting that the question is “Should we dance?” and not “Shall […]