Greetings From a Cellist!

Welcome to the second blog of March! Or should I say: CELLO! I’ll get to the backstory of that silly greeting in a moment. First, I’d like to remind you to read yesterday’s blog, watch my YouTube videos, consider buying something from my shop, and/or make a donation of your choice to my website and musical efforts. Now, back to my silly greeting of “Cello”.

I’ve mentioned before that I first started my music degree with Cello as my instrument and then switched to a music degree in voice. In that first semester while I still had an emphasis as Cello being my instrument, I found myself having a conversation with a friend outside of the music department. When I told her that I play Cello she said, “Wouldn’t it be funny that whenever you picked up the phone you’d say, ‘Cello?’” Yes, I definitely thought that was a funny notion and the idea of it stayed with me for quite a while. (Though I hardly ever had conversations on the phone.)

The next semester later when I had switched degrees, I at times felt like a “traitor” for leaving my other cellists. I didn’t want it to be weird whenever I would see them in the halls of the music building. So I decided to use the silly greeting that my friend came up with and would say “Cello!” to any of the cello players, including those who were new and had a Cello with them. It seemed, to me, that this greeting was funny to some and tiresome to others, but it ended up becoming a tradition for me to greet every cellist this way until the end of my time at school. In fact, I sometimes run into some of these cello players even after being graduated and I still find myself greeting them this way.

I hope you enjoyed reading today’s blog. It’s a bit shorter than other blogs, but I love this memory and wanted to write it down. Have you ever had a silly way of greeting a friend or multiple people? Let me know in the comments down below! As always, thanks for reading till the end and don’t forget to keep on dreaming!