dark magic

spent an afternoon at esplanade library with lizheng. no we were at the frank brothers store first. he tested all their cellos. and i had fun playing with their tuning fork. it's really an amazing thing. it's like this tuning fork planted on an open rectangular box. so you knock the metal ends with a rubber stick and the box starts ringing with the tuning note.

went through stacks and stacks of quartet scores. and most of them simply didn't make any sense, just like clegg textbooks, where words just went on and on without any sign of a full-stop. debussy and ravel quartets still stood out amongst the rest, though. very french impressionistic.