Guess who came over for dinner.

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.