Finding the perfect sine wave

I'm listening to a recording of a live performance of the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor on our local classical station KING FM from the Olympic Music Festival. We've really enjoyed heading out to Quilcene and listening to music in the barn. The donkeys that live on the farm are very nice too! The quartet is one of my favorite chamber music pieces. I do love so much of his music. Our chamber group read through this quartet a few months ago. Sightreading it on the piano wasn't a whole lot of fun, but I have to say that it was a good thing it wasn't his Piano Quintet. The Brahms Piano Quintet was originally written as a string quintet; then he changed it into a sonata for 2 pianos, 4 hands. I think Brahms thought he still had 2 pianos when he changed it into the quintet as we know it today. With cello, travel, and work I don't have a lot of time to practice the piano. Sigh. Wish I did - there's so much great chamber music that I'd play better if I actually had some time to practice.

On the cello front my husband commented that he could hear my vibrato smoothing out. Yay, progress!! He normally only notices big macro changes over a few months, so I was pretty excited when he said that my vibrato had gotten much steadier. I am continuing to work trying to control the speed as I move from finger to finger. The other thing my teacher is having me do this week is really concentrate on keeping the bow steady. Those 2 things are all I'm thinking about during practice this week and I can already hear the difference. My revelation for the week was that I don't have to try as hard as I thought I did to make a decent sound!