Nope. You may not have it right now, but it'll come back. Good luck.

Everyone has 'off'days.... I have my share. It's prolly not your first and prolly not your last. I usually have most of mine when I'm anebriated.
Today is another day.

It wasn't one off day, it was the culmination of a series of declining efforts, climaxing in the sloppiest performance I've given in about 15 years. When I keep practicing and it doesn't sound better, it's time to quit.

DON'T GET RID OF YOUR RIG

If you do you'll just wind up replacing it. That has happened to me umpteen times.

Maybe you need to change gigs? Do something different that'll hold your attention.

Depends on how you practice...... playing the same mistakes 20 times won't sound any different. Vary what you practice..... work on chops rather than a particular piece. :thumbsup:

There's not a lot of room for improv in classical. Hey, maybe that's it ... time for a genre change. Plenty of swing bands out there ...

Oooohhhh! Classical! Time for a change, perhaps ... romantic, baroque, avant garde, classical, early music to name but a few ....

Well I have a couple more concerts I'm committed to play this spring and also an opera in the fall (for Mrs. Dallas, so I can't back out of it and still remain amongst the living!) so this won't happen overnight. But unless something drastic happens I'm not likely to change my mind. It's completely irrational to expect that I play at the same level as in the late 1980s (when I was a full-time music student) but I've now fallen so short of that peak that I can't deal with it.

Is it a physical limitation?

What I learned today
 

:) Nothing learned,but I saw Brianna's post re: different guage railroad tracks.
During WW2, (not 3, we're just starting that),the UK badly needed Locomotives.
The US sent some over, bloody great huge things,compared to the Brit. ones.
Anyway, they were different guage.
I guess they found a way to use them, but have no idea how.
My intention was to add something interesing,but-------
You're probably all wondering,"Who the hell is this"?

wow, a little self impressed aren't we. show up in this esteemed meeting place for some of the greatest minds to ever... oh wait this is the cellar - what was i thinking. we don't give a damn who you are, as long as you want to be one of us. welcome to the cellar.

Ultimately yes I suppose since playing an instrument is a physical activity--but it's not tendonitis or anything like that.

Is it a lack of motivation?

He didn't say what instrument. If it's clarinet or violin I vote for Klezmer.