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Unblock
Are you having problems with editing? I noticed you added then removed the unblock template; your blocklog doesn't show any blocks, but it could be a block of the underlying IP. If you need help, repost the unblock template and I'll be along to help. Essjay Talk • Contact 21:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Taft-Katsura Agreement
I think the current version of the article on Taft-Katsura is different than the on ViolinGirl threw the yellow flag on and meets the neutrality standards of Wikipedia. This link goes directly to the memorandum http://www.icasinc.org/history/katsura.html.

Hello
I saw you wrote about Narmer. I write about Ancient Egypt at Serbian Wikipedia :) And the other interesting thing is that I play the violin, too. Actually, I graduated last year :) All the best! Don't practice too much :)) Srdjan Vesic 16:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Help for a noob
A long time ago you wrote in my talk page that if I needed help, I could ask you. Well, now that I've finally decided that I'd like to start contributing more to Wikipedia, I was wondering if you could tell me how to find pages that need fixed or such? Sir Elderberry 03:52, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy April
Hey ViolinGirl, how are you doing? You doing exams? I just thought I'd drop by to say "hi" and happy April Fools! Hope you well. Cheers  Ban  e  z  13:04, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Heh, no problem. Glad to hear that your exams have finally come to an end (for the time being), how have they gone by? Sadly, I'm getting into exams now, for May, so my internet time "should" be cut down drastically. Yeah I read your blog from time to time, and was happy to comment, as that post was on a subject I too am quite interested in, feel free to reply there whenever you have the time. As for the America idea for me, I've had to push back my SAT (orginally June 3) because I found out, a week ago (by chance, talking to another student I know) that I had exams, and would not have time to study properly for the test. As it is now I will most likely write in July or September, but I'm really not sure. If I get a high score, and am accepted into an American university, then I'll probably move over there in September for the start of the academic year. I'm not sure about the other option of my while family emmigrating, I'm still pushing for it. :) Anyways, nice to hear from you. Cheers  Ban  e  z  18:52, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Article
Hi ViolinGirl, I made an article about College Confidential a couple of weeks back. Do you know why someone deleted it? Is there any way to get it back? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_confidential Thanks, EKN 19:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)EKN

Music
Also, have you ever had a chance to play Profokiev’s Concerto for Violin #1 or any Paganini concertos? Those solo parts are so hard! EKN 19:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)EKN

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2
THANK YOU for removing BISHOP BRUNO'S Image. You are a WikiPerfectionist. This is a liberal man that would certainly not object to the kind use of his likeness. But here are you to protect him! It's nice to have a purpose in life, isn't it!

Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! :D P.S. Oh, and you'll notice something different about my user page and talk page... :P Hint:T3h colors.   _-M     o     P-_     04:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter


Ciao Ragazza Violino, spero di regalarti un piccolo sorriso con questo mio saluto dall'Italia (Milano). Un bacio da 82.50.35.110 Hi ViolinGirl, hope i'll give you a little smile with this greeting from Italy (Milan). A kiss from 82.50.35.110 ;)

A tiny favour.
Hi there Violin Girl, I hope I'm not bothering you too much; I was just wondering, if you have any spare time in your busy schedule, could you look at the Editor review page and try to maybe review me? I'm trying to find out how I can improve and how I'm viewed on Wikipedia. Much thanks!   _-M     o     P-_     04:42, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reviewing me kindly! Yes, the user page was just for you. ;) Just kidding, it was for the eyes of people who viewed it. I'll now pull for topics and force you to read this unbearably bright text. :D Cheers!   _-M     o     P-_     23:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

hey ViolinGirl
Just saying 'Hey'. I, too, love Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. I also love Aaron Copland and Stravinsky and the Beatles, and Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan and many others. I play upright bass (bluegrass), guitar (folk and started learning classical long ago), and some banjo (bluegrass - Scruggs and melodic three finger picking).

I love Wikipedia. I'm new at Wiki community and everything Wiki (wiki markup) etc.

Good luck in all you do. Maggiethewolfstar 21:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Help!
Hello, I'm Jasmine- Im new to this website and am having some problems with the page editting and all those things :P I was wondering, how did you make your page so colourful?? I'd really like to add some colour to my page if I could. Help! Thank you :) Jasminerace 10:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

from thewolfstar
Thanks for your note. If it weren't for music I would have jumped off a bridge long ago. peace Maggiethewolfstar 20:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Kindness Campaign
I was snooping the Kindness Campaign page (considering joining and all) and noticed the name... gotta tell you, I'm enough of a violin fan (and terrible amateur violinist) that I just had to leave a note!

It's nice seeing other people with similar interest. Thanks for being here! <i style="color:#FF00FF;">~Kylu ( u | t ) </i> 03:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

"A most inspirational player"
Hi there, Carley!


 * May the Lord bless and keep thee,
 * And shine on you bright clemency,
 * That His face alight might help us see
 * The peace He gives with vibrancy.

It was so good to hear that you placed well in the competition last Saturday. I mean, really! I couldn't stop smiling as I read those last two v.com posts. For some reason, it made my day. That day was fun for me, as well--I had a competition of my own last Saturday (math, haha). And still, I need to apologize for having taken still another week to write back. Oh, but more importantly, you're playing the Siciliano tomorrow! *grin* Of course, I'll make sure to send a request to a Friend for a smooth performance (and more reliable strings). Anyway, it's high time I replied (and hopefully I haven't completely forgotten the way of the wiki)...


 * ...a quest for a violin teacher! Any success yet?

Yes! ^_^ After a good number of phone calls and discussed decisions, I've begun studying with Lee Joiner for a few weeks now (hmm... link, link... there we go!). I've really been loving the lessons, and he's just a great teacher. Without fail, we always go past the hour-lesson mark, since there's simply so much to cover. And getting private lessons has changed my life, busy-wise--but more on that later. As a sample of his style, one of the ways he suggested practicing the violin arrangement of the Rachmaninoff Vocalise was--to my delight--to actually sing the part (to understand the phrasing as it was originally meant). *thrilled*


 * I would have gotten into a million bad habits... I remember Mrs. Collins...

Well, I certainly have gotten into a good share of bad habits, and I'm sure there are more that I just haven't been told about yet XD. Bowhold, "chin-hold," shifting movements, hand shape, you name it! I actually find it pretty exciting ^^. Oh, and Mrs. Collins--did I ever mention that I had her as my private instructor at the String Workshop maybe four years ago? I still remember her teaching me things like "the Itzhak Perlman way to start a piece." XD


 * I got my learner's permit the day of my birthday, and have been scaring mom ever since.

Oh yes, your quotes of "SLOW DOWN!!" sound very familiar ^_^. Of course, you can't help but appreciate when your parents decide to impart to you all of their carefully-discovered driving secrets, ranging from some pretty hilarious gas-preservation techniques to my mom's introducing the concept of people who turn on their headlights in the middle of the day as a way to "warn" other drivers that there's a cop nearby. Now that was interesting.


 *  [JP] has such a radical way of stating his beliefs and joy in the Lord.

Amen ^^. I recently did a little search in the college and public libraries for "Christian Hedonism" only to find that, well, even using Google Book Search, the concept isn't known by that name to many. ^^ The article does seem like it'll require some innovation to jump into; after all, "Christian Hedonism is a liberating and devastating doctrine" (How to Fight for Joy). Will be looking forward for opportunities to build on it nonetheless.


 * How can someone have it all together (or, seemingly so) and not have good music standards? Along the same lines (of "spiritual sadness") have you seen this [Bruce Wilkinson's experience in Africa]?

Music! I have been reading Extreme Calling and that, among other things, have been seriously been challenging my own standards in the music world, which have unfortunately been taking a turn from the perfect in the past several years. There is so much to ponder!--even Piper's standards call for some deep thinking, with the way music works with our satisfaction in the Lord. Does he mention that in any of his books? And I did hear about Bruce Wilkinson's work in Africa... *sigh* Indeed. So much that can be discussed, but... time isn't exactly on my side right now ><.


 * Year before last we went to Indy and I taught my first CI. A very...er...interesting experience. Good, but interesting.

I think I know what you mean XD. Last year, I was surprised to find out that all of the kids were ages 4-7 (instead of ~6-12 as I had been expecting). Definitely a big difference, and like you said, an interesting experience. To be honest, I think I survived a bit better psychologically than did Victoria (mostly because I had a milder group of kids while hers were astoundingly... turbulent); though, I seemed to have caught a few health-related side effects from the week ^_^. One can get pretty hoarse with so many kids under their wing! *laughs*


 * I'm a hopeless perfectionist.

And rightly so! :D Happily for me, I did make good on my declaration to copy your poetic posts into a file, and thus will be writing some thoughts on "From the snowy mountain" before long. I hope you'll forgive me for that. ^^ Ah, poetry! *happy sigh*


 * BTW, what exactly did Victoria do with Daily Success? I love her spoof version...

Victoria's work with Daily Success included a few things, as far as I've come to understand it. Mainly, it was HTML-izing the Daily Success emails, which would come from Mr. Gothard, then go to her boss(es), and then to her. She and her coworker would also need to "put 'em live," basically just uploading the latest email and making sure that it would get sent out to the right people. During the course of the year while the DS emails were being written, it sometimes looked like pretty intense work, since Mr. Gothard might not get it finished until later in the day, and then it would need to go through a couple other people before she or whoever else was doing the uploading could do the final formatting touches and send it out. Good thing Victoria's a tough person ^_^. And ah yes, Dairy Success. I happened to very subtly spoof/reference DS as well in a poem somewhere, truth be told... *acts mysterious*

Whew! Hope the quotes from my talk page worked well, since it was a long time ago when you wrote those ^^. Anyway, as I promised above to mention later, I'll give an update on how my life has been lately before I run off.

Violinistically: Lessons have, as I said, changed everything. I guess when you have a couple of pieces to work on (I think this will be the first time that I have actual solo pieces prepared for the SW audition), Kreutzer, scales, and a million bad habits, and you toss on one, two, three orchestras, you begin to wonder if you should have thought through your schedule a bit more thoroughly before saying "yes" so quickly. XD If you read Victoria's latest blog entry, you'll also be introduced to one of my latest passions--improvisation. That last thing also raises concerns about music standards, though... *lost in thought*

Everything else: Well, I think the other things will start relaxing a bit now that... *laughs* that I've written this, finally. Like how you mentioned "forcing myself to neglect replying to e-mails and miscellaneous comments in cyberspace" at v.com, I've been similarly making sure that I write here before doing anything else ^_^. It's just been too long! Next on "the list" is, well, poetry, definitely (including one I wrote several weeks ago for Sango's collection but never finished the last third of), "internet correspondence," and, dutifully, academia.

These next couple weeks I'll really be flying around (a couple orchestra performances, a couple auditions to work towards, SAT's on Saturday, etc), so your prayers are very much appreciated, as always. Just the other day I was sitting there and thinking, "Wow. somebody's praying for me right now, I just know it." ^^

Thanks so much for reading, and God bless! Weien 07:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

This is Moe

 * Thanks, very nice of you to say. I will keep in touch with you.. M o e   ε  17:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I know my message to Kingfisherswift is on the Project page of WikiProject Music of wrestling. He cross-posted on there and dedicated the opening of the Project to my departure. (since I was co-founder along with him). M o e   ε  20:22, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I have not vandalized
...with this IP, thankfully. Hi there, how are you doing? I thought I'd check my messages anonymously and I (through a link journey) noticed you came online this evening. I trust by now you realize this is Banes (shhh!) taking a moment out of his wikibreak. In the news, I am writing my SAT on June 3rd, and have already registered, unfortunately I also have other exams soon before it (hence my withdrawal from the esperanza thing and wikibreak). What is your current education situation? All the best 165.165.127.37 18:47, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. No hurry in replying, as I am supposed to be on wikibreak (despite the contribs for this IP telling another story). If you don't mind, please reply on the vandal talk, thanks!


 * No, I am not hopeless! I managed to pull off a pretty good wikibreak last time, I think, this one should pick up soon... :) Thank you, (regarding the SAT), it is very important for me it goes well if I want to move to the USA (which I must do sadly), so, I am fretting a little about it. :P Glad to hear all is well with you! You graduate June 3? Best of luck, leaving school, are you off to college? Whats next (or do you not know)? Anyways, I'll see you around (your blog is on my "blog reading list" so I may pop up there once in a while) :) . God bless

Re: Hey!
LOL! Yeah, I do that with comments al;l of the time. It's always "reply" :P. Anyway, I'm doing fine thanks! And you? I'm glad you didn't leave Wikipedia, it's much better with you here. Oh yes, smile for the camera! --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

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Enjoy your break!
We'll look forward to seeing you when you get back. &mdash;CKA3KA (Skazka) 21:42, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Same Birthday!
Hey guess what?.....you and me have the same birthday! July 11, right? and im turning 16 this july, which means your turning seventeen (i think), so only a year apart! amazing... - Bagel7 10:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Piano Concerto - Chopin
-Approximately five minutes into the second movement of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in f minor, somewhere around there...is that called a tremolo that the violins are doing? Unfortunately if you've never heard it I have no idea where on the Internet to get a recording. :( — CliffHarris (- T | C -) 02:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks you for the nice welcome on my talk page. I think I'm getting a handle on this Wikipedia thing. Now let let me try and sign my name... --Zencato 16:44, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

HQITW is back!
Hi! I'm just reminding everyone about my quiz section, the Hardest Questions In The World Section. Although many players are already taking part, the more people playing, the more exciting it becomes. Drop by the following link to play... See this link to take part in the competition! Questions are updated every so often, so come back later if there are none left to answer. Thanks, Spawn Man 02:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Chopin Piano Concerto - again
I found a recording of the piano concerto here, but I don't know whether it was all three movements or not, as I am listening to a recording of it on my CD player now. :) Too bad I don't have the software to upload it on my computer. :( — CliffHarris (- T | C -) 01:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC) (Oh, and who made [or how did you make] the colourful templates on your main page and here?)

Thanks for the Welcome!
Thank you for your post on my talk page. That article on Friedrich Seitz was mostly written by other people; I only happened to notice that both articles existed (both showed up on a search). I have created one article, List of composers by nationality, in an attempt to consolidate some of the shorter lists for individual countries, namely Ireland, Spain, and Bulgaria. Part of me also thinks that, because categories exist for these already, if any of these lists are useful at all, or if they are simply restating the same information. What do you think? Thanks again for the welcome! Dafoeberezin3494 03:13, 29 May 2006 (UTC)