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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Aug 12

Maybe buying a violin isn’t in your purview, yet you still want to support me and my violin making.

Tools are expensive. Tuition is expensive. I’d like to make violins that aren’t.

There are multiple avenues in which to support me:

CA: $ephilljr
PP: EPHmusic
Vmo: esharpminor7

t.co/DmvOSd8Man

https://gofund.me/30e2d6da

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 4d

Adding a bit to my violin’s page on my website: 🎻

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 7d

I called it.
Everyone say thank you to Aabria.

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 8d

And there it is:
“No green for you.”
#CriticalRoleSpoilers

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 8d

I know the stream hasn’t started yet but Aabria, thank you for whatever you’re about to do tonight 🫡🫡

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 8d

They said it right after I posted this. I feel vindicated.

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 8d

So they’re drinking Malort. Got it.

#criticalrolespoilers

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 8d

I know the stream hasn’t started yet but Aabria, thank you for whatever you’re about to do tonight 🫡🫡

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 8d

Say what you will about Critical Role, but they’re gifting me a whole new campaign just for me on my birthday. Pretty nice of them if you ask me 🎉

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Jillianne Hamilton 🦇 @jilly.ca · 16d

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 16d

I’ll say this much:

White Sox fans don’t crowd the CTA on game days when I’m trying to get home. 🐻

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · 17d

Played a really fun pit gig the last two weeks, and it was my violin’s second outing! Pictured below are opening and closing nights.

The corn fields were nice, but I’m so happy to be back in civilization lol 🎻

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Sep 7

So typically, new violins will need a new sound post around 6 months to a year after being completed and played in. Of course, Anansi has decided that now would be a good time to start screaming for one. Luckily, there’s a luthier nearby I can consult to help me with this.

It’s me. I’m the luthier.

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Sep 7

I’m on the other side of Illinois for this gig for two weeks, and it’s somehow 20 degrees cooler than it is in the city.

I’m slightly chilly and slightly annoyed but yay fall 🍁

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Sep 6

Packing for a gig wherein I will be playing second violin (on the third violin I’ve made so far.)

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Sep 5

Question for my teacher friends, asking for a friend (me):

Does anyone have Lady Gaga Hit Mix by Larry Moore for string orchestra and/or Motown Forever also by Larry Moore?

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Sep 4

Got to see Twenty Sided Tavern last night, and also got my dice blessed by Aabria. I’m not crying, you are. 🐉 🎲

@twentysidedtavern.bsky.social
@aabria.bsky.social

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · Sep 3

On this day 95 years ago in Chicago, a 17yo piano virtuoso named Margaret Bonds (first pic) premiered a piece by a composer not many people had heard of, Florence B. Price (second pic)

black and white photograph of pianist-composer Margaret Bonds

black and white photograph of composer Florence Price

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Aug 25

This is the end of that section btw

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Aug 25

It wouldn’t be one of my arrangements if I didn’t include dumb notes like this in the parts:

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Aug 18

If you’re in the Chicago area and need some work done on your instrument, DM me and we can work something out :)

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Aug 18

So, I’ve got less than a month to make a lot of money for this next school term. Selling my violin (or the violin I’m restoring that will be done this weekend) would help immensely, as well as any other support that comes in. 🎻

𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Aug 12

https://gofund.me/30e2d6da

t.co

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𝄆 𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓅🎻✨𝄇 @esharpminor.com · Aug 12

It’s here! I’m selling my first violin “Anansi.” This is the 16 day violin that I’m super proud of. 🎻

If you or someone you know is looking for a quality violin (by one of the nation’s few black luthiers, who is also, like, a really cool guy), this could be the one for you!