Guess who came over for dinner.

wtg

You guys look great!!

Bernard

Cool!

pique

Thanks for a great time!

AdagioM

So great for both of you!

Daniel.

You two are a pair. I can't image living in Montana and owning horses. It must be a dream.

Steve Miller

How fun! Did you all go to the festival?

Looking good!

ShiroKuro

That just have been fun! Great pic too!!
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Piano*Dad

Love it! BTW, are all of those instruments on the wall playable?

Jodi

PD - some of them are playable.

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The one on the left plays, it wasn’t really created as an instrument, but as an ornamental object according to the receipt - it was purchased by Steve’s uncle in Japan ages ago. The one on the right is a real instrument (but I can’t remember its name), it came from Steve’s family. Both have strings that vibrate at certain piano key frequencies, so I have to put pieces of felt on the strings sometimes to keep them quiet!

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The violin came from my Dad’s family in England - it’s got a crack in the body, and the bridge is missing (I think the crack was caused by the bridge) and it has not been played for as long as I can remember.
Here I am in about 1964 playing the harpsichord my Dad built for my mom from a kit. The violin is on the shelves - that my Dad also built. He once told me that he signed up for a shop class just so he could make these shelves for our living room.

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This one came from one of my Dad’s trips to Serbia/Croatia - it’s real, it’s called a “Gusle”. I like it for obvious reasons.

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When my Dad and Stepmother moved into senior living, I asked for the instruments, and a huge box arrived with some of these. There are a couple of unplayable concertina type instruments and a mangled old trumpet and several wooden recorders as well - that all lived on those shelves my dad built.

The ukuleles are playable.

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Daniel.

Nice!

AndyD

Lovely photos and interesting room!

I think its a Yueqin on left and Pipa on right, old Chinese instruments(MrsA watches a lot of Chinese&Korean movies on youtube). Gusle is new to me.

Our visitors from Seattle who stayed with us last week were really into ukulele playing.
They had a carbon fibre electronic model. Also a hand-built by Luthier wooden one. Sounded a bit different to our £40 plywood job.

Mik

Love the one with you at the harpsichord. SO midcentury.

Mik

And your feet can't reach the floor. So cute.

Jodi

Yes, very mid century!

AndyD

It's rare to find a violin on its side in a bookcase... or a concertina, both of which I've learned.
But is that a hunting horn on top of the bookcase!

Jodi

Yes, I think so. It was held together with tape. I don’t know what happened to it, I remember Steve getting it to make some noise, so it was around til ‘fairly’ recently. There was also a really cool wooden flute with some silver keys, but that disappeared too.

Jodi

@AndyD said in Guess who came over for dinner.:

Lovely photos and interesting room!

I think its a Yueqin on left and Pipa on right, old Chinese instruments(MrsA watches a lot of Chinese&Korean movies on youtube). Gusle is new to me.

Our visitors from Seattle who stayed with us last week were really into ukulele playing.
They had a carbon fibre electronic model. Also a hand-built by Luthier wooden one. Sounded a bit different to our £40 plywood job.

Oh and thank you for the instrument names! It does look like a Yueqin. I have the purchase receipt somewhere. The other instrument has animal skin covering the body. I will take some closeups of it. I love the ukulele, though I haven’t been playing much lately. I have a tenor and a baritone, and Steve learned the bass so he could play with me, but he has Dupuytren’s contracture in both hands and has not been able to play for about a year. He’s going to have surgery this fall.