Tonight I returned the rental cello that I've had in the Bay Area. I've been here all week wrapping up some projects and will go home on Friday. After that I finally get to take advantage of the budget cuts we've been asked to make (i.e. reduced travel) and will be happy to stay home most of this summer. Hooray!
When I returned the cello the owner of the shop showed me a 1/10 size rental cello that had just been returned. It was incredibly cute! It was just slightly bigger than a viola. I had to scrunch my fingers up to play it. The bow was about 1/2 the length of a full-size bow and and the frog was smaller. I wanted to tuck the cello under my arm and strum it like a ukelele. I did tuck it under my chin to pretend it was a viola.
Puppies, kittens, 1/10 size cellos -- they are all so cute!
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We have one of these little cellos (maybe it is even a 1/16th) at the violin shop where I occasionally work. No one has ever rented it, as far as I know. You'd have to be 2 years old to play it, I think!
We also have 1/16 violins, and 1/32 violins, but the latter are for sale only, not for rent. I actually sold one once, though I can't imagine buying a $300 instrument for a toddler!
But they are really cute!
1/16th sounds impossibly small! wow! It's hard to imagine being so small that a 1/16 cello is the correct size....
I would love to have a 1/16 cello. How cute!! I was in a store one time when a little girl came up to me with her 1/8 size violin. She also had little tiny pieces of guide tapes on her fingerboard. How cute is that??
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