by John Rihani | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week we left me with a beautiful cello from Michael Koeberling, but feeling like I had broken my own rule to get it and found myself with another lovely sounding cello that didn’t quite have what my heart wanted. The three years I played this cello found all...
by John Rihani | Apr 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week we left off with me promising to NEVER AGAIN commission a cello for myself, waiting instead for the chance to buy a cello that already existed. Well, I didn’t do that. About a year after I sold my 1998 Widenhouse cello I started getting itchy to have a...
by John Rihani | Apr 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week we reviewed my doomed commission of a cello from Peter Paul Prier. Let’s now turn our attention to brighter chapter in my cello story… I remember reading an article in “The Strad” magazine about some of the nobility that commissioned instruments from...
by John Rihani | Apr 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week left off with me planning to commission a cello from Peter Paul Prier. I was still playing my 1995 Widenhouse cello and David Forbes bow. I chose to attend Butler University and attended the Aspen Music Festival the summer before my freshman year. The...
by John Rihani | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week we left off with me beginning my senior year of high school, still playing the LaMay/Poulsen combo and increasingly interested in modern cellos. Fate intervened as Sally, my cello teacher, heard of a cello Kurt Widenhouse just finished for a customer who...
by John Rihani | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
You’ll remember from last week’s thrilling blog post about my first two cellos, we left off with me beginning my sophomore year of high school, having spent most of my freshman year forgetting everything I’d learned in middle school and having yet to...
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