HELLO PROVINCIAL TAX REFUND!
(I’m sorry, was I a little loud, there? I’m a bit giddy. Nothing like getting a bit more back from the government than you expected.)
This, plus receiving 4/5ths of the payment for the full-size cello last night, means… buying the 7/8 cello is happening this Friday FOR REALS because I’m no longer missing a couple of hundred dollars. I’ll also be plunking a chunk down on the Visa, and then the rest is to be squirrelled away in savings against the rainy famine-not-feast days.
Thank you, world!
Now, if I could just concentrate on getting this assignment finished…
yay for tax returns and bonuses!
So the 7/8 is a measurement of size?
The term indicates an instrument that measures 7/8ths the size of the average full-size cello (referred to as a 4/4 to preserve the fractional terminology). There’s a chart here indicating the average measurements (in mm) for each size, so you can see the slight difference between the two sizes. It doesn’t look like much, but it does generate a different playing experience, not so much because of the shorter length but more due to the smaller (lesser? shallower? whatever) depth from front to back of the instrument (what’s referred to as height, although that can confuse the uninitiated), and to a sightly lesser extent the width. In my experience, anyway.