Completed April 2021
I lived in Indonesia for almost a year when I was 18, staying with a very large family headed by a prominent and well respected political journalist. “Bapak” was getting on in years and was rather skinny, bald, and jug-eared. He was extremely smart with a very broad sense of humor, and he played the violin like he was choking a cat. I almost died from suppressed laughter one night when he let rip a full twenty-second fart while the rest of the family ― all stone-faced ― continued watching television. This violin has significantly better tone.
