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For this weeks Macro Mondays challenge - Musical instruments.
Photographed outdoors in natural light with dappled light from a tree casting nice out of focus shadows on a white wall in the background. Full frame (not cropped).
For the first time in three years we had a students' competition in person at the Music Club. The professional musicians from SF Symphony played wind instruments and for their time on the stage they were exempted from masks.
The launeddas (also called triple clarinet or triplepipe) is a typical Sardinian woodwind instrument made of three pipes. It is a polyphonic instrument, with one of the pipes functioning as a drone and the other two playing the melody in thirds and sixths.[1]
Predecessors of the launeddas can be traced back to approximately 2700 BCE in Egypt, where reed pipes were originally called ‘memet’.[1] During the Old Kingdom in Egypt (2778-2723 BCE), memets were depicted on the reliefs of seven tombs at Saqqarra, six tombs at Giza, and the pyramids of Queen Khentkaus.[2] The launeddas itself dates back to at least the eighth century BCE [3] and are still played today during religious ceremonies and dances (su ballu in Sardinian language).[4] Distinctively, they are played using extensive variations on a few melodic phrases, and a single song can last over an hour, producing some of the "most elemental and resonant (sounds) in European music".[4] Wikipedia
"Surgical instruments"
Hospices de Beaune (Bourgogne - Côte d'Or)
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“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in a face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
To take a photograph means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second–both the fact itself and the rigorous organisation of visually perceived forms that give it meaning.
It is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.”
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
My day job consist of drawing blood. So when I saw the topic this is what came to mind for "Drawing Instrument"
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Writing or Drawing Instrument is the topic for the 4th of January 2011
This instrument is called a thumb piano or a kalimba. This picture was taken for Macro Mondays music edition.
An air keyboard musical instrument ... whatever ... you can look it up for those interested in such ..
District Dub City
City Sounds
QSM
Brisbane
Instruments of torture used by the Spanish inquisition are on display at the Museo de Cartagena de Indias in Cartagena, Colombia. The figure on the right is wearing an "horquilla del hereje" that impedes movement of the head.
This week I went for a selfie featuring my three guitars. My Dobro, George Benson and Spanish guitar. There is a bit of His Master Voice" (HMV) in this picture as well, can you spot him?