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The Bouzouki Shop, Athens. I bought a flute in this shop, a souravli in the first row in the case. As for the stringed instruments, those in the upper right are tzouras, and the smaller ones below them are baglamas. The larger one mid left (with the white pick guard) is a bouzouki. I bought a tzouras in another shop which seemed to have a wider selection.
Detail of the workings of a very old music box which plays 8 tunes. The dust etc is authentic - very difficult to access the works to clean. A larger image of the workings can be seen on my flickr site.
The 9/12/23 Crazy Tuesday theme is Musical Instrument.
In 1951, my not-yet-wife Sammy wanted to take piano lessons. Unfortunately, her parents sent her to a fancy music school where she learned theory and all sorts of highfalutin' stuff that bored her to tears. All she wanted was to be able to play the popular songs of the time.
However, as part of her music schooling, she had to make a flute out of a length of bamboo, and here it is. And I could actually toot a tune out of it. Sort of....
This is an image of my favourite writing instruments up to date, which I use with my Moleskine notebooks.
I was intrigued with the contrast showing on the Rotring Core rollerball pen on the bottom left side so I composed the whole image around it.
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Montblanc Meisterstück No. 149 fountain pen:
I think this is the largest type of the Meisterstück series - I bought it at a duty free shop at Amsterdam Airport in 1989 on the way home from a business trip. I wanted a fountain pen that I knew I could use throughout my life.
Tombow XPA ballpoint pen:
I got this pen this summer. I wanted a compact and tough, reliable ballpoint pen, and one without a cap, so that I could start taking notes easily even when I'm standing up, like during an outdoor field trip or a speech at a cocktail party - this one fits all those conditions. It's a pen that's designed for outdoor, heavy duty use, and its ink (or the tube of the refill) is supposed to be so special that you can even write on a damp piece of paper, though I haven't tried that yet. You pull the back end of the pen towards you and the pen point comes out rather than knocking the end.
Faber-Castell Grip 2001 pencil:
Currently my most favorite writing instrument.
Rotring Core rollerball pen with Signo 0.38 black ink:
Comfortable to use. (In my opinion, the Signo 0.38 is the best gel ink for Moleskine notebooks.)
Paul V. loves working with his hands. He makes a variety of instruments including guitars, fiddles, banjos and more. He's always working on "projects". I asked if he could play something and he replied, "Well, okay but I'm not as good as I used to be."
This is from a series of portraits I took of him. Comments welcome.
Photo # IM3_1671hbws. Huntsville, Arkansas. August, 2013.
(c) Kelly Shipp Photography.
Quan tinc la sort de poder anar a un concert, a un bon concert, si puc intent demanar permÃs per treure alguna imatge. És la meva manera de poder fruir encara més de la música en directe i del moment.
Fa poc vaig poder anar a una concert a la casa de Cultura de les Bernardes de Salt i vaig fer el que em va fer sentir molt bé, fer fotos als grans músics que hi tocaven.
Un moment determinat van quedar la cantant i el pianista, els altres van sortir. Vaig aprofitar el moment per apropar-me a l'escenari i fer alguna imatge diferent, de detalls que m'agraden.
Cara a cara vaig veure uns dels instruments de vents que tocava un dels músics i vaig pensar que fer-ne un detall també era una manera de fer un petit homenatge al músic, a la música i al moment que estava vivint.
El resultat fou aquest, potser un altre estona us posi els músic i l'entrega que vam anar mostrant a cada instant.
Jo només és hi dic, moltes grà cies per fer-me disfrutar.
This week the Macro Mondays Group takes a closer look at stamps. Photos of postage stamps or the instrument for stamping, or the pattern, or the mark made by the stamping.
Venice was the hometown of Antonio Vivaldi. It is also the hometown of Interpreti Veneziani a group dedicated to making the music of Vivaldi and others. During the 2021 summer season, they performed at the Chiesa San Vidal in Venice. They also have dates in the US, UK, Japan, and in various European cities.
The Chiesa San Vidal also is a museum of expertly preserved and wonderfully displayed violins. The four pictured here were created by Venetian craftsmen between 1600 and 1700. My fascination with really old preserved art and architecture continues...
I have tickets to a Charles Lloyd Concert at the Musical Instrument Museum. I am a member. I wanted to familiarize myself with the Museum before the concert so I toured it. It is an incredible treasure in my backyard. A target rich environment for photographers.
Le Saxophoniste, Jean-Claude Lecouflet, French Artist
Bronze sculpture in a 1930's Futurist style
MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global. Realizing most musical museums featured historic, primarily Western classical instruments, MIM's founder Bob Ulrich (then CEO of Target Corporation) was inspired to develop a new kind of museum that would focus on the kind of instruments played every day by people worldwide. A focus on the guest experience shaped every aspect of the museumâs development. From the beginning, our goal has been to deliver a musical experience that is enriching, inspiring, interesting, and fun.
Today, MIM has a collection of more than 7,500 instruments from more than 200 world countries and territories. The galleries reflect the rich diversity and history of many world cultures. But music and instruments also show us what we have in common a thought powerfully expressed in our motto, MUSIC IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL.
MIM's immersive exhibits foster an appreciation of diverse cultures and the craftsmanship and traditions of instrument makers from the past to the present. A visit to MIM is also about experiencing the sensory nature of music and how it affects our emotions. Through state-of-the-art, interactive media, guests can see the instruments, hear their sounds, and observe them being played in their original contexts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Instrument_Museum_(Phoenix)
Musical Instrument Museum
MIM
Terracotta amphora (jar) [490 BCE]
Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Metmuseum AN 56.171.38
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254896
This work is a masterpiece of Greek vase-painting because it brings together many features of Athenian culture in an artistic expression of the highest quality. The shape itself is central to the effect. Through the symmetry, scale, and luminously glossy glaze on the obverse, it offers a carefully composed three-dimensional surface that endows the subject with volume. The identity of the singer is given by his instrument, the kithara, which was a type of lyre used in public performances, including recitations of epic poetry. The figure on the reverse is identified by his garb and wand. While the situation is probably a competition, the subject is the music itself. It transports the performer, determines his pose, and causes the cloth below the instrument to sway gently.
Las pinzas son unos instrumentos utilizados para sujetar la ropa en el tendedero para que se seque tras el proceso de lavado.
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
I had a couple of things to choose from in my Still Life Lesson and I decided to go with an instrument. This isn't my instrument (it's my little sister's) but I do practice with it.
I sound horrible! My siblings say I sound like I'm killing something when I play. :P
I used HB pencils H, HB and 2B. It took me almost a month but it was fun! :D