{"id":16176,"date":"2019-09-18T11:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=16176"},"modified":"2019-09-18T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:25:01","slug":"progressing-but-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/18\/progressing-but-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"progressing, but slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo: http:\/\/photography.jznet.org\/<\/a> | https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Florida_Box_Turtle_Digon3.jpg<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two days ago, I got cleared to do three things by my doctor: sleep without my arm brace, drive a car, and put my viola under my chin. All three items were sources of major relief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day one of viola: put the viola under my chin and noticed that the should rest did not contact my collarbone. Fist pump! Also noticed that I couldn’t raise my left arm high enough to reach the fingerboard. Sad trombone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day two of viola: was able to reach the fingerboard! W00t! Could only reach the upper two strings due to being unable to rotate my elbow far enough under the viola. Meh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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