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Sephari Guide consulting directions while on search for missing Sephari.wordpress.com blog.
Most unfortunate thing happened on June 24, 2009. SP (name withheld to protect the guilty) deleted the entire Sephari.wordpress.com blog. She did this on purpose. She also deleted our facebook and myspace pages. Last week she gave notice and after 3 days of no email replies, I changed the passwords on as many of the priveldged areas as possible. Of course I did not have administrative access to our sephari blog. She keep that factoid to herself. She was my most trusted right hand person. When she gave notice I really contemplated closing Sephari down. It was a real setback to us. Not that our blog was super special or even well written, it was more of the broken links in google seach results that bothered me. In fact just yesterday I went through the blog and pulled out the best entries and reposted them on http://sephari.com/l-13-sephari-blog.aspx.
Sephari Blog Rolls On
Thanks to the helpful wordpress support Team. I’m happy to report to you today that the Sephari.wordpress.com is back from the depths of delete. So please visit the blog site. Doesn’t that make you worry a little? All those things we think we are deleteing are really not deleted!
Protect your blogs Administrative User Account
Just about to give up and the good folks at wordpress support came through with an email.
They restore the deleted blog. Really, they had time for us? That is so great to have their help. Anthony said to protect your administrative access. I did not sign up for the account myself, otherwise I would have. Seems like the signer upper kept a small factoid to herself. You know that if you wite for a company and they pay you for your work that the company gets to use that work. Just because you leave does not mean that you can delete what you created while being compensated.
I had my account attached to our companies wordpress account so I thought all was good. Nope. Gotta have that admin priviledge on your account otherwise you are just a lowly user. Our myspace, facebook did not make it back like wordpress. Those companies were not helpful in anyway. Remember that service sells and it will be fun to watch their little internet empires crumble.
On with wordpress and guard your admin priviledges!!!!!
touche
peace out
Einstein playing his violin.
We want to call it a lost art, though it is alive and well. It feels lost because you hardly ever see a violin being made. As uncommon as the shoeshiner, bumping into a violin maker seems is an unlikely occurrence for most folks. And since Sephari loves to surprise its devoted blog followers with the interesting tidbits of the handmade artisan world, we’re bringing to light this special practice.
What makes violin craftsmanship so interesting is the alive, organic way it births a violin. It is as raw and intangible as bottling wine. Every inch of wood is different, each breathes different and will sound different combined with any other particular piece of wood. Wood, the product of these magnificent gigantic life forms that we love as trees, is an organism, that we are shaping into a music bearing tool for our humanly desires. Einstein discovered string theory through a single violin note–explaining the world through the perfect beautiful loops of sound these instruments played.
The anatomy of a violin.
The basic anatomy of a violin consists of a body (or corpus), a neck, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings. The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and perhaps a chinrest, either attached directly over the tailpiece or to the left of it. The anatomy is similar to a guitar, except violin making involves more delicacy. It also involves constructing a bow, which guitars of course do not have. The bow consists of a stick with a ribbon of horsehair strung between the tip and frog (or nut, or heel) at opposite ends. Yes, you heard us–horsehair. Violinmaking involves ingredients zanier than a Harry Potter spell, like animal glue, catgut, and peg dope.
There is a plethora of violin makers in America, which of course comes as a surprise, like when you find out that crossword competitions hold national conferences. There are followers for every niche! A trusty violin maker will most likely hail from the A.F.V.B.M, aka American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers. And the Violin Society holds a conference (every?) year that lets people of all abilities attempt to make their own violins. And of course there are violin/bow making competitions, complete with judges and international speakers.
And while we have you on this violin kick, enjoy a couple videos on the interesting world of violin making.
