This is the violin I eventually decided on after playing around 50 in the space of 4 days x_x i'm all violinned out and exhausted!
He's Irish, made by a member of the Perry family (they couldn't trace back which member. my guess is it wasnt Thomas or it'd be twice the price ) was made in 1810... and cost me ?6000 which is uhhh only a mere thousand over my original budget........

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Name suggestions welcome.
I did want an Irish name but can't seem to find a nice one So any names!!

The trouble with Feargal is I can only think of Feargal Sharkey who has a squeaky whiny voice and over wiggly vibrato - neither of which you have..

Never heard of him but 'lol' nonetheless

I'm on the verge of giving up on choosing an Irish name! The Irish didnt do a good job at inventing nice names!! *runs away from any Irish forumites*

Is he (the violin) definitely a boy? If he has a quick s e x change then he could be called Aoife or Erin or Niamh.

well, there was this ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS BOY in Galway named.....Declan and I think that is a lovely name which suited an equally lovely blue eyed boy

ps when you are ready could you post us a sound clip pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Theres Fionn??

Barry's a good Celtic name

I should have expected that out of you b-c!

I'm still not getting the naming instruments thing....

But Ferghal is just plain wrong and Declan is much better...but still weird!

Kieran? Seamus? or just plain, Paddy?

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Barry's quite right though! And it tends to be used as shortened/alternative version of Fionnbarra (or Finbarr in English) - patron saint of Cork! Fionnbarra/Finbarr the Fiddle might be an idea?

How about just Finn???

Sounds like part of a fish.

Oh ffliwt if I had to chose an Irish name it would definitely be SEAMUS!!!

If you haven't heard of Seamus Heaney go and look him up. He's one of the greatest poets alive and anybody can read his poetry because it's so approachable. He wrote some amazing pieces about his childhood experiences growing up on a farm. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and many other prizes and professorships.

If you can only find one poem try 'Death of a Naturalist' - incredible language. It should be on the internet somewhere.

So for me it would be Seamus without a doubt - so dignified, elegant, talented and pure genius - what better name for your new Irish friend. (and Feargal Sharkey was horrible )



If it's a girl I quite like Aoife Oh and we NEED a sound clip pretty please????

looks like a perry & wilkinson to me.
now you need an irish bow to go with it.

Declan or Finlay?

wilkinson doesn't sound very Irish! Perry and Wilkinson sounds a bit like Solicitors..
Marks & Spencer?

Cael is a good Irish male name, means 'slender'.

I'm a bit confused by that - never met or heard of anyone of that name, but there's a word in Irish "caol" (I would say that something like "quail") which I would generally use to mean "narrow", which could be it. Never heard of it being used as a name though.

There are lots of very makey-uppy "Irish" names on (supposedly) Irish name websites, and most of the names on them which are genuine are badly misspelled or have very dodgy pronunciation guides

I got a new (to me) car a month ago and have been looking for a nice name for it.


This afternoon I christened it 'Aoife' with some turtle wax ( I am devoted to washing my car at least once in its lifetime).


It's actually Japanese/Scottish and not Irish at all

That brings back a memory from somewhere..I'm sure Cael was a baddie in a programme when I was a kid..got me thinking now!

Cael is a welsh word with a totally different meaning so that'd throw me

I did consider Finnigan (Finn for short) or Finley... is that even Irish?!


To be honest... i cant even seem to work out if its a boy or a girl... or whether id rather it be a boy or a girl My last violin was a girl. We were the best of friends!

Sounds to me like you need to spend longer getting to know each other. You've got years yet, so plenty of time to come up with a name.

don't rush into any names, take time to get to know your violin!

the name has to come from YOU!

and about 'Seamus', might be my 'twisted' mind, but it just sounds 'dodgy' WELL DODGY!!

If I had an Irish violin, I would call it Murphy........ (note to self: must put an Irish violin on the shopping list).

Your new violin looks gorgeous ffliwt and all best wishes for a fantastic future together.

If I had an Irish violin I would call it...

Fechin

Certainly an acquired taste, but as "adolescent angst" pop songs go "Teenage Kicks" was brilliant.

Yes I think I will take my time He/she looks muuuuch prettier in real life than the pics
And Jojo... i thought the exact same thing about the name! everyones suggesting it and im like uhhh maybeeee......

How is "Seamus" dodgy???

erm, I am not 'allowed' to say on an open public forum where minors might be hanging around

told you my mind was TWISTED, I think I have spent far too long in my job!!!

I thought I was twisted but I can't think of anything dodgy!! Maybe I am as pure as the driven upon snow after all!

I can't believe you can't see the dodgy in that

Ffliwt you and your new 'irish friend' have got to come down to London for a weekend to see me and Eowyn, we'll have a right laugh
there's plenty of room to put you up, we'll have fun playing our fiddles watching movies and eating pizza and cracking jokes with our 'twisted heads'

That sounds great Jojo me and new fiddle *insert name here* would love to meet Eowyn! (how do you pronounce that name btw? sorry it looks beautiful though!) can i see a pic of Eowyn?

Eowyn is pronounced pretty much as you read it actually. I posted photos of her ages ago in the photos thread remember? you can revisit it anytime here is her one piece back
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Beautiful


I think I want a sort of mythical mystical sounding name for him hmm... one extreme or another. Either a 'thats a peoples name not a violins name!' like Paul or something. That could be funny
Or a really non peopley interesting mystical name. I'll probably go for the latter!

Try "Saoirse" which is Gaelic for "Freedom" and I believe is a unisex name.

Cheers,

Matt.

Eowyn is from Lord of The Rings but I also chose it for a reason, it's because my violin's personality is like the personality of the person in the movie/story (or maybe my personality when I play the violin is like Eowyn's??? interesting I'd say!)


a transvestite??

I have a friend called Saoirse

a transvestite friend? cool (only pulling your leg ffliwt, I know you can take a stupid joke hehehe)


Incidentally, your friend might feel very 'honoured' that you name your violin after him or is it her? or both?

LOL

I'm bordering on thinking this violin might be a lady It'd certainly be easier to choose a name if it was haha

it sounds like you are 'undecided' on the gender of this violin... maybe Saoirse is a good idea after all

Hahahaha Jojo

I think a girl for sure! I want a nice pretty name for her I like the name Mya but my baby cousin is named that :s Was thinking maybe Eva/Ava or Mia or Belle

Arabella?
Eliza? Matilda?! AMELIA. like that one.
i sound like im naming a baby :s

Matilda?

Would be good for waltzes then

That could well be the case, I believe I first heard/read about it looking at a site about Irish mythology, after a discussion at work, so it could well be of dubious internet mythology, rather than anything else..

It does mean something else in Welsh too, as ffliwt says, so maybe not anyway.

Arabella

nooooooooooooooooooo

Hahahaha
What about Henrietta or Esmerelda. It has to sound quite posh

it's your violin, whatever you like it will have to do, I don't like Henrietta, but that's ME, not you, it's your violin not mine and I don't like Arabella either, but I did like Matilda

Yeah i thought Matilda was quite cute hehe.
Plus my grandpa always used to call me Matilda as i looked like her as a child