We already have a cello. I don't intend to mess with that. If I want to start playing really large, not-really-portable instruments again I'm going to sell a couple of the little ones and just get a bass. Which I don't think I'll be doing. Guitar is big enough.

I've decided that instruments are like cats--after the third one, additional ones cease to be additionally burdensome. Three cats, six cats, ten cats--it's just a Hell of a lot of cats and another one or two don't really make a difference. Ditto instruments--I've already played piano, hammered dulcimer, Appalachian dulcimer, guitar, and fiddle. And those are just the ones I remember. There might be others. So viola it is.

I have a sneaking suspicion this one will sound like shit once I get it strung up (or maybe I'm just biased against orange instruments; my fiddle is a nice, soulful, aged brown) but I'm going to give it a shot.