u/ylekiot

I bought this Viola in about 2010 off of eBay for $700. My mom was a lifelong viola player and played in the Stanford University symphony. She had a viola that she had played for her entire life that was given to her by her father when she was in college. Around 2010 or so the viola was stolen out of its case by a relative/drug addict. We never found out who it was. My mom only discovered it when she opened the case to play and the viola was gone. It completely shattered her. She was in tears for days. I didn't know anything about the instrument and went online and purchased what I thought would be something of a replacement to ease the pain for her and for her to have something to play. It turned out to be not the right thing for her, but the gratitude she had to me for doing that was immense. If anybody could help with any information and resale value I would appreciate it. My mom passed in 2013 and I'm finally ready to let go of it. It has a label inside which says:

Ottomar Hausman

Geigen- und Cellobauer

MITTENWALD/KARWENDEL

Made in Germany

-HANDARBEIT-

SERIAL- No. A657

Antonius Stradivarius (in italics)

Cremonensis faciebat 1719 (in italics)

1960

I picked up this piece of wall art at the local Goodwill. It appears to be on what is cotton pulp paper. I believe it was pressed into a mold when it was wet. And when dry left a nice 3D image. I can't read the artist signature but I'm leaning towards "​Nathan". It appears to be a limited edition 63 of 950. It is in a high quality shadow box frame and under glass. It's a cool piece and I was hoping to get some more information on it as it is fairly unusual. The frame size is about 27 in x 23 in and the paper size of the art is about 15 in x 10 and 1/2 in.

I love bringing words I write to life with music. My stuff can be pretty eclectic.

Jump

https://suno.com/s/HQA4JfvkLggSXhiI

This is some crazy little story that I wrote probably when I was smoking something when I was younger. It's really fun to turn these writings into music. It's quite the ear worm. More along the lines of of '80s Rock if you're into that sort of thing.

The warmth from the fire

https://suno.com/s/fFh7zB1K5SdQKUhl

Maybe the sun will come out today 🎶

Just more of my AI collaboration. I do not have any intention of trying to hide the AI, in fact I welcome and encourage it's input and presence in my song creation. I 100% do the words completely on my own. I enlist the AI to follow some general guidance I provide to create a song that matches the feeling in my words. I make this music for myself and my wife and some people who know me well and love it. I don't post to YouTube or Spotify or anything other than here and Instagram and I don't get bogged down in the minutia. I just make songs I love. Enjoy

My kind of fool

https://suno.com/s/wzYlaPcDgBF0G4Zr

My favorite kind of music. So satisfying to take my old writings and make them into music like this.

https://suno.com/s/FPkLk8YTmCMtw1lf

Words from long ago from the ❤️

https://suno.com/s/aaxaLLGWS4BjAbD8

Just a little instrumental track I was fooling around with.

https://suno.com/s/nveDicuODnndQHFt

Welcome to the new world order

https://suno.com/s/rH9uIhUPF3lucaBG

Do you believe?

https://suno.com/s/T9928MSE53okieTR

Something about how humans influence each other.

Validation

https://suno.com/s/j3rpL4N344pFcFJV

This is just a song I wrote about how someone that you used to have a relationship with pops into your head randomly. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. And how sometimes it just happens. What happens, that is.

What happens...

https://suno.com/s/6Y5eGOfbsNrVWDC6

So I started following this sub and I'm interested in investing in silver. I made a run to the local pawn shop today and they had a collection of silver coins. They had a 20% off sale as well. They told me they priced based on melt value only. Each coin was 32 to 34 g of .​925 silver. They were either $89.99 or $94.99 for the ones that were a bit heavier. After the 20% off they became $72 and $76. I also paid a total of $186.87 in sales tax. There were 29 coins. For calculation purposes, I divided the total sales tax by 29 which equaled $6.44 per coin. So the $89.99 coins cost me a total of $78.44 including tax and the $94.99 coins cost me $82.44. when I calculate the spot value based on the weight, it comes out to anywhere from $91 to $95 per coin.

So the total I paid came out to be $2,294.87 including taxes​. The spot value (today listed at $2.81/g) ​priced at $2,701.06 according to my calculations. It's possible these coins might be more as a collectible? Some numismatic site rated them a 97 on a scale of commonality with zero being the most common. I saw a couple for sale online and the price was higher than I was expecting. They also came with a cool book. Apparently these coins were issued by American Express to card holders for purchase in about 1970.

Curious what you guys think about my purchase. Did I do okay? Any input and comments are appreciated as I am just getting started.

Angela. If you must know. Her self portrait as the cover. Mixture of her and my writing. Has it only been 25 years? Maybe she'll see it. She would certainly know. Capturing her spirit.

Remind me

https://suno.com/s/sMkvd6tXoXPZVsEb

Hey all I just thought I'd share what my friend and I did with my track. It's called "Way out" and you can listen to it if you go to my profile. My friend is retired and was having fun making a game and eventually hopes to monetize it. Although it's not monetized at the moment. It's just a fun game that you can play for free. My music is the background for that Tetris like game. There are no ads and you can check it out here. Just something fun to do with my stuff. And it's a fun game! I think you can also download the app on the Play store for free.

https://pack-panic-play.lovable.app/

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