"Quite," Holmes agreed, and gestured at the stall owner. "May I?"
He was offered the instrument and bow to try out, and was subjected the man's questions about whether he played the biola, on account of the advice he had given Captain Aubrey. Holmes answered him with a short, "No," and put the bow to the strings, playing a piece by an obscure 21st century Earth contemporary composer that he thought might fit the sound of the instrument, such as he had heard it when Aubrey played it. He had never quite liked the piece on the violin, despite his best efforts to make justice to it, but now, it seemed to finally be everything it was supposed to.
As usual, he was fully immersed in the music as he played, and he only came back to the outside world as he lowered it from his shoulder.
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He was offered the instrument and bow to try out, and was subjected the man's questions about whether he played the biola, on account of the advice he had given Captain Aubrey. Holmes answered him with a short, "No," and put the bow to the strings, playing a piece by an obscure 21st century Earth contemporary composer that he thought might fit the sound of the instrument, such as he had heard it when Aubrey played it. He had never quite liked the piece on the violin, despite his best efforts to make justice to it, but now, it seemed to finally be everything it was supposed to.
As usual, he was fully immersed in the music as he played, and he only came back to the outside world as he lowered it from his shoulder.