In 2018, while on my yearly trip to Asia, I stayed in a few different hotels in Taiwan and Japan. i hotel Zongli (Taoyuan, Taiwan) The i hotel Zongli in Taoyuan, Taiwan (5f., No. 18, Sec. 1, Zhongmei Rd., Zhongli District, Taoyuan Taiwan) is marketed as a gaming hotel but …
Somewhere in the town of Jhongli, also known as Zhongli or Jungli, in Taiwan, there is a gaming hotel with the latest graphics cards in their computers. It is fairly close to SoGo, which means shopping and food are all in close walking distance. The i hotel appears to be …
The sheet music offered here is for “Aloha ‘Oe”, or “Farewell to Thee”, by Queen Lili’oukalani. This arrangement is for easy violin in G major. The sheet music include the lyrics in both Hawaiian (Look: 4 vowels in a row!) and English. Aloha ‘Oe is known as Queen Lili’oukalani’s most …
The sheet music offered here is for “Rule the World” by Zayde Wolf, I think. I have not been able to find evidence of a different composer, and I know a lot of modern music is written by one person and performed by another. Anyway, this arrangement is for easy …
The sheet music offered here is for “Saria’s Song” or “Lost Woods” from the game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It is composed by Koji Kondo. This arrangement is for easy harp and does have chords for the more inventive. Obviously, one can use this version for the piano, …
I just found a box outside with a 1/2 size Mystic Owl Blue Glitter Violin Outfit from Rozanna’s Violins! The box had a Rozanna’s Violins logo sticker at the top to helpfully let me know what is inside. I thought I ought to write about the violin, because I had …
I had a perfectly good name. I could write it, with some letters backwards and almost legibly, when I was 3. I wrote it a lot, perhaps because it was one of the longest words I could write back then. I believe I tried to write my name at 2, …
One of my six-year-olds informed me that she had named her violin. And her bow! “But I forgot what their names are,” she explained earnestly. I have heard of people who name their musical instruments. They give such names as Charlie or Henry— human names rather than simply Violin Number …
The sheet music offered here is for “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”, a traditional children’s song under Roud Folk Song Index #4439, arranged for easy violin with the lyrics attached. The melody is a variation of the French Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, an extremely popular melody that is also used for Twinkle, …
The sheet music offered here is for “Engagement Party” (also known as “It’s Over”?) from the movie La La Land. It is composed by Justin Hurwitz. I arranged it for simple piano. This is not in the original key; I believe it was originally in E flat major, and this …
