Have You Given Your Instrument a Name?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Baird on December 23, 2009 at 12:28pm

My double bass is Big Bertha. I used to have an electric upright bass that we called Skinny Minny. My cello is Yume-chan. That is "dream" in Japanese, the chan is a word used to denote friend but tends to be used with children's names and considering how much smaller the cello is than my bass I think it fits.

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Permalink Reply by Randy Sandstrom on December 23, 2009 at 10:40pm

I have been thinking about this subject and due to the cost of the bringing my ebay find to quality I think im gonna name mine " denaro " you know spanish for Money lol.
Now the second one if I can seal the deal I am ganna call him " long-fellow " due to it's age and look about 150 - 200 years old and comes with a coffin case to carry him around in

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Permalink Reply by Sr. Rita Buddington on December 24, 2009 at 1:35pm

I call mine Bella Voce - latin for beautiful voice. I don't sing well, so my violin is my voice, and we are learning to be beautiful together.

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Permalink Reply by Joyce Street on December 24, 2009 at 6:24pm

Hmm well I guess this will get a laugh. But I am a big anime fan. So I have taken to calling my fiddle Chiaki from one of my favorites "Nodame Cantablie" another favorite of mine is La Corda. They are both about music students and thier journey in learning to play the violin. Any way I play a very old stainer copy fiddle and it is very loud and has a big attitude! Lol anyway alot like this character Chiaki. There you have it you can stop laughing now. Hehe

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Baird on December 25, 2009 at 4:07pm

I like Nodame Cantabile too! Can't wait for the second movie to come out!!

Joyce Street said:

Hmm well I guess this will get a laugh. But I am a big anime fan. So I have taken to calling my fiddle Chiaki from one of my favorites "Nodame Cantablie" another favorite of mine is La Corda. They are both about music students and thier journey in learning to play the violin. Any way I play a very old stainer copy fiddle and it is very loud and has a big attitude! Lol anyway alot like this character Chiaki. There you have it you can stop laughing now. Hehe

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Permalink Reply by Lillian Poole on December 26, 2009 at 10:10am

I have named my viola Ferdanand the Bull. I have my reasons though. I guess the name Ferdanand sounded pretty cool, and the " Bull" part comes from it being full of stuff I shouldn't say when I'm mad at it.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Catherine Dieter on December 31, 2009 at 9:01am

I had to come back to this page and read what other musicians had written.

I was just asked this by a fellow musician. I must think on that as I have named my car! "Frankie" because I drive an Avalon. My luthier who made my cello (Robert Wenzel from Warroad, MN (www.wenzelviolins.com) has 2 yellow labs named 'cello' and 'bow'. Since I am all Irish I am leaning toward "Cara" which means 'friend'.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Keating on August 19, 2010 at 7:16pm

Hmmm. I've thought about naming my fiddle, but haven't. I tell my wife though that it's my engagement ring since she bought it for me for my birthday a few months before we got married. I've thought about using her middle name, Diane, but haven't really Christened it.

I do get sentimentally attached to my instruments however, so each one is more than just and assembly of wood and wire to me. They each have a personality and a history so the name should reflect that. I guess if my fiddle had a name it would be Diane.

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Permalink Reply by Ann Marie Cordial on August 23, 2010 at 9:49am

My viola is named BOW SCREAM, because it is a Decepticon. I can be playing a lovely piece, and suddenly it will transform into this 'monster', making even the simplest passage difficult. It even has the Decepticon tatoo on its side, but no one has noticed yet. :)

---Ann Marie

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Permalink Reply by Robyn Allegra on August 27, 2010 at 11:13pm

My viola's name is Clytemnestra Nepomuk Viola. "Clytemnestra" because I'm into Roman and Greek mythology and at the time I got this instrument I was reading about Agamemnon. I liked that his wife didn't take crap from him. "Nepomuk" because the first piece I played on the instrument was Hummel's Fantasy for Viola and Orchestra (Piano).

I have yet to find inspiration for naming my violin...I feel a little guilty. But something will come to me! :-)

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