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My love/hate relationship with the violin has been going steady since March 2008.
Strobist: AF-360 at camera left wide open at 1/2pwr bounced off ceiling.
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
A redux of the Macro Mondays challenge "Musical Instrument". When the challenge first appeared, I was not anywhere near my source of musical instruments (the sister-in-law's house, or even the father-in-law). But now it's the annual holiday pilgrimage back to Houston. What do I spy, but a bow on a wall. So, after several attempts to get the photo done right (a good stack with minimal artefacts), here we are. There are 52 source images, acquired using the in-camera focus bracket function. A floor-standing reading lamp provided light and my little tabletop tripod held the camera ('twas tippy, but we managed).
The French horn has a small mouthpiece, making it more difficult for me to produce a good sound, even though I've played other brass instruments. But, when someone plays it well, the tones are beautiful.
Tutorial and instructions for how to use with children here: montessoribyhand.blogspot.com/search/label/music
Rare collection of string instruments.
A great way to view my photostream on Flickr
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Spotted against a cotton-candy pink wall in a Tokyo music shop, this Fender Made in Japan Junior Collection Jazz Bass in Satin Shell Pink is equal parts eye candy and serious instrument. With its compact scale, modern feel, and unmistakable Jazz Bass tone, this bass is tailor-made for players who want boutique vibes with rock-solid legacy.
The Junior Collection represents Fender Japan’s deep understanding of ergonomics and playability. Built with a 30” scale length, it’s perfect for players with smaller hands or those seeking a more nimble, less fatiguing experience—without compromising the deep growl and articulate midrange that Jazz Basses are known for.
This particular model blends the timeless design language Leo Fender established in the early 1960s with subtle updates. A lightweight alder body, satin-finished maple neck, and vintage-style tuners stay true to the roots, while modern appointments like narrow tall frets and a slightly updated pickup voice keep it responsive and clear.
Aesthetically, the Satin Shell Pink finish is a masterstroke—soft, matte, and utterly fresh. Paired with the bright maple fingerboard and parchment pickguard, it radiates playful confidence. Set against the mod pink backdrop of the Tokyo shop display, this bass almost floats—a design object as much as a musical tool.
For players who appreciate form, function, and flair, this Jazz Bass proves that sometimes, smaller is smarter.
Title: Musical Instruments: historic, rare and unique.
Author: A. J. Hipkins.
Published: London, 1921.
Image: Viola.
Source: Lewisham Reference Library.
Brief description: An illustrated volume of historic, rare and unique instruments with lengthy descriptions of each and notes on their usage.
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
The stringed instrument is one that my son picked up while in the Philippines. It has 16 strings and he has no idea how to tune it. The percussion instruments represent many different countries.
Submitted as #108 - Musical Instrument to the Flickr group 113 Pictures in 2013.
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
Satellite: Sentinel-2. Sensor: MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument).
Visualization RGB: bands 4 (red), 3 (green), 2 (blue). True color.
La imagen tiene 107 km de ancho (aprox.)
La presa del embalse del Lago Powell se encuentra junto a la población de Page (en la esquina inferior izquierda en la imagen). La meseta Kaiparowits (cubierta de nieve, en el centro arriba en la imagen) está incluida en la zona protegida llamada Grand Sataircase-Escalante National Monument.
La montaña Navajo (también cubierta de nieve en la imagen) es un lacolito granítico, y es sagrada para el pueblo Navajo.
Esta imagen ha sido procesada con el navegador EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) de Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub es un motor de procesamiento de datos satelitales, dentro del programa de observación de la Tierra Copernicus (copernicus.eu) de la Unión Europea, operado por la empresa Sinergise. EO Browser es gratuito y fácil de usar. El norte siempre está arriba.
This image has been processed using the EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) by Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub is a satellite data processing engine, within the European Union's Earth observation programme Copernicus (copernicus.eu), operated by the Sinergise company. EO Browser is free and easy to use. North is always up.
Image from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors, under the direction of Harley Earl.
More explanation on the blog:
"Flight thru Instruments" and the Fine Art of Instructional Illustration
Harmonica Quote:
"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window."- unknown
Included are Parker items that my parents used daily when I was growing up. I recollect my folks using them as early as when we were living in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles in the late 1950s.
The two with the dark blue bodies were a pen and pencil set. The second from the left is a Parker ‘51’ fountain pen which was very popular in its day. Whenever my mom wrote letters to her relatives and friends, this was her go-to pen. I was fascinated by the richly dark characters that were effortlessly produced by its nib that was barely visible.
The reddish one is a Parker ‘61’ fountain pen. I remember watching my dad pay so many bills by writing out checks with this beauty. He also used it to sign our school grade report cards!
The one on the right is my Parker ‘45’ fountain pen which my parents bought me as a gift when I was in high school or junior high. Though modestly priced compared to the ‘51’ and ‘61’, it performed quite flawlessly and served me well during secondary school.
To this day I still gain great satisfaction using fountain pens. My favorite is a Pilot brand (made in Japan) ‘vanishing point’ style in which the nib retracts into the pen barrel by click action. I’ve used it often enough in the several years I’ve owned it that I have worn off part of its black finish revealing the brass shell beneath.
tealight
scissors
strong glue
tweezers
any sharp object
thin-nose pliers
any object like a ruler
any cylindrical object
Title: Musical Instruments: historic, rare and unique.
Author: A. J. Hipkins.
Published: London, 1921.
Image: A selection of sitars.
Source: Lewisham Reference Library.
Brief description: An illustrated volume of historic, rare and unique instruments with lengthy descriptions of each and notes on their usage.
Bob Rosenberry and Aleksandra Bogunovic tape down the electrical wires on the TIRS instrument before covering it with the MLI blanket
The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) will fly on the next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM).
TIRS was built on an accelerated schedule at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and will now be integrated into the LDCM spacecraft at Orbital Science Corp. in Gilbert, Ariz.
The Landsat Program is a series of Earth observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. Landsat satellites have been consistently gathering data about our planet since 1972. They continue to improve and expand this unparalleled record of Earth's changing landscapes for the benefit of all.
For more information on Landsat, visit:
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Rebecca Roth
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The Montblanc Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I.
The Limited Edition collection honours the remarkable artistic and architectural achievements of Aztec culture, and the influence of one of its great leaders, Moctezuma I.
Every spring since 1992, Montblanc introduces the Patron of Art pen collection which pays tribute to those who exemplify the importance of art patronage throughout the world. The stellar names include Peggy Guggenheim, Pope Julius II and the latest being Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus. The Homage to Hadrian pen collection features gold-coated cones and cap tops, a reflection of the Roman buildings commissioned by Hadrian. This year’s Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I continues to be a fantastic example of Montblanc’s expertise in pen making.
Moctezuma I (1398-1469) also known as Moctezuma Ilhuicamina was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan, ruling from 1440 to 1469. Under his reign, Tenochtitlan, which is now the center of Mexico City, blossomed thanks to social, economical and political reforms. The limited edition designs are released as part of the Patron of Art Homage that honours the remarkable artistic and architectural achievements of Moctezuma I. To coincide with the release of the Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I Limited Editions, Montblanc is introducing a fine stationery notebook in red calfskin Saffiano leather embossed with traditional Aztec motifs.
The latest Montblanc Patron of the Art Limited Edition 2020 collection is their Ode to Moctezuma 1 the ruler, who has shaped the image of Aztec culture and remains a great inspiration to write our own legacy. I really hope that the glyphs that are on the side of the fountain pen were chosen for their content and not just for an artistic flair. Contacting a Mayan scholar such as Floyd G Lounsbury would have upgraded their end product. I will try to locate and contact his colleagues to spread the word as they should have sufficiently deep pockets to drop the penny. Limited to 87 pieces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Lounsbury
Beginning in 1938 with his contributions to the Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Oneida Language and Folklore Project, while he was still an undergraduate, Floyd Lounsbury sustained a lifelong interest in indigenous languages—especially those, such as Oneida and Cherokee, in the Iroquoian family. His doctoral dissertation, published in 1953 as Oneida Verb Morphology, remains to this day the scholar’s bible for the basic structure and terminology of Iroquoian languages.
Iroquoian linguistics was not, however, Lounsbury’s only academic focus. He worked in acoustic phonetics and speech recognition; he refined new ways to teach linguistics, particularly with respect to field methods; he critiqued lexicostatistics and glottochronology; he wrote on the psychology of language; and he published on the history of anthropology. He was one of the most sought-after and influential anthropological linguists of his time.
Born and raised in Wisconsin farming communities, Lounsbury enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1932. He took nearly a decade to complete his undergraduate program because of the Great Depression’s economic necessities, but the extended period also allowed him to come in contact with a wide array of linguists and anthropologists and to adopt a thoughtful and measured approach to undergraduate education. Lounsbury majored in mathematics but also studied languages—primarily German but also Latin, Greek, Scandinavian languages, and Old Irish—along with phonetics, phonology, philology, and emerging theories of structuralist linguistics. After receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University in 1949, Lounsbury accepted an appointment to its Department of Anthropology and remained at Yale until his retirement in 1979. Whether in classes, conferences, workshops, or personal conversation, Lounsbury’s students and colleagues considered him ever humble, generous, and insightful, with a prodigious memory for detail, a wide-ranging curiosity, and a formidable intellect.
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Fountain Pen Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I Limited Edition 4810. USD$13,000.00
Limited to 87 pieces.
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Moctezuma I was crowned ruler of the great Aztec Empire in 1440, thereby ushering in the golden age of the Aztecs. During his reign, he shaped the image of the Aztec state that we are familiar with today – one rich in culture and mythology. The capital city of Tenochtitlán, today’s Mexico City, blossomed under his rule. The Montblanc Patron of Art Homage to Moctezuma I Limited Edition 4810 with champagne-tone gold-coated fittings is dedicated to this supreme ruler of one of the most special cultures in world history. The overall design is inspired by an "atlatl", an Aztec spear-throwing device. The shape of the cone, refined with a hammer finish, is based on an Aztec sacrificial knife with an obsidian blade. The lacquer colors – petrol and carmine red – are inspired by the colors of the royal cloak. Two hieroglyphs decorating the cap symbolize the years of Moctezuma I's reign. The handcrafted Au 750 solid gold nib is adorned with a fine engraving inspired by the Aztec glyph for the city of Tenochtitlán: a three-armed cactus with a royal diadem and two scrolls.
Features
Clip: Champagne-tone gold-coated clip
Barrel: Red lacquered barrel
Cap: Pattern on cap underneath translucent petrol lacquer
NIB: Handcrafted Au 750 / 18 K solid gold, champagne-tone gold-coated nib with special design.
Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 8
This edition, which comprises just eight pieces, is all about the pageantry of Moctezuma I and the Templo Mayor. The pen features an 18-karat champagne-tone gold cap whose elongated shape is set with diamonds, garnets, green tsavorites and multi-coloured sapphires. It is also decorated with a hand engraving of the winged Huitzilopochtli, patron god of the Aztecs.
Three-dimensional engravings of an eagle and cactus represent the foundation myth of the Aztec capital, while the two double-headed snakes symbolize renewal, fertility and luck. The spear-shaped clip is embellished with a triangular-cut green jade, and the cap crown sparkles with a Montblanc diamond. The barrel of the writing instrument is made of dark red jasper, with 18-karat champagne-tone gold inlays.
Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 87 - 2020
This version is limited to just 87 pieces in homage to 1987, the year when the Templo Mayor was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 87 employs turquoise, which is a familiar stone used in Aztec decoration, and Central American cocobolo wood, a reference to the material used to make the traditional atlatl.
The mosaic is handcrafted, making every one of the pieces in the edition unique. The mother-of-pearl Montblanc emblem is embedded in an engraving of a traditional Aztec sun disc on the cap crown.
The handcrafted 18-karat gold gold nib is engraved with a glyph denoting the heart, a symbol of sacrifice. A further glyph engraved represents the second name of Moctezuma I: Ilhuicamina (meaning, “He who shoots an arrow into the sky.”).
Montblanc Patron of Art Limited Edition 888
The colors of this edition–turquoise and carmine–were used in fashioning royal garments. The sterling silver pen cap is artfully engraved with a traditional Aztec décor, and the lacquered barrel is engraved with a pattern again reminiscent of Moctezuma I’s cloak. It features four lines in 18-karat champagne-tone gold, evoking the directions that radiated from the Templo Mayor, the main temple and the literal center of the Aztec world.
The spear-shaped clip features an engraving of a quetzal’s feather, and it is set with a triangular-cut green jade. The forepart of the writing instrument and the cone are crafted from sterling silver, contrasting with the 18-karat champagne-tone gold fittings and the handcrafted solid gold nib. The Montblanc emblem, made of mother-of-pearl, is embedded in the engraving of an Aztec sun disk.
On. The right: Montblanc 888 Edition estimate C$3-4,000.00 plus tax.
Looking for a subject for 115 of 120 pictures in 2020 - Ways to weigh or measure, I was going to take a picture of a set of scales I have then decided to focus on 'measure' and came up with this picture.
Whilst clearing out the garage I came across this rather shiny guage holder which I recall my father had fitted to some of his cars. There was never enough gauges in the car for him! The hunt was then on for a couple of gauges to put in it and as luck would have it I found one of his old oil pressure gauges, the one on the left and a volt meter, one which I used to have in a previous car. Luckily they were both 'Smiths' and fitted the surround nicely.
Rather than languishing in a forgotten corner of the garage they now adorn a shelf in my 'man cave' bringing back happy memories of times gone by.
Left gauge measures engine oil pressure, right gauge car electrical voltage.