Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Suffering For Your Art
I have a lot of musical instruments around the house. I have keyboards, guitars, basses, recorders and harmonicas. I was a musician. I’ll pick one up every now and then and play for myself, my wife or the kids and I also let them plunk around on them too. Usually it’s supervised but we leave the recorders, harmonicas and numerous toy instruments readily available for them to play with.
The other day I decided to play a song idea I had on my Hohner Blues Harp. I found it in the kids play area, took it into the kitchen, and sat down to play. The first note was a blow note (exhaled note) and the second was a draw note (inhale note). I immediately stopped and started to cough and gag. I went to the sink and spit out little chunks of old, dried up, Graham Cracker that had been imbedded inside the harmonica.
Yuck!
Apparently, my son Matthew, who loves playing it, was eating Graham Crackers and blowing into the harmonica while still chewing!
OK, there will now be new rules about playing with Daddy’s musical instruments.
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January 1st, 2010 at 7:03 am
Sounds like our house with all the musical instruments! We tend to bring them out of Andy’s studio as a treat (and to avoid cracker incidents)!
Happy New Year to you and your family
By the way, I like the new look blog, very smart.
January 5th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
That would have been quite a nasty surprise! Out of sight = out of danger. I’m not sure if I may have done my Aunt and Uncle a disservice at Christmas by making their Grandchildren aware of what the piano actually is by playing it. Despite the fact that it’s woefully out of tune, I had many requests for Christmas carols from young and old and was accompanied by some very enthusiastic little people the youngest of whom was 16 months. It doesn’t feel like Christmas for me unless I’ve played some seasonal music. ^.^
January 5th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I let my kids play along too.