Diary, 11/08/'10
My new blog will show three aspects: my visual art, my writing, and this diary. Actually, I am a musician too, but I haven't quite worked out yet how to show music. Yet music is an essential part of my life. Playing, writing songs for my musicals, even writing songs for plays by other playwrights. And for many years making unusual musical instruments was a major source of income. Medieval instruments, ethnic instruments, even modernized versions of archaeological instruments. Of course I couldn't make top quality instruments if I could not play those for a start, so I was forever learning to play different ones. That meant that together with my wife Karen we could give concerts. Which was fun, and incidentally boosted our sales. A win-win-win situation. Come to think of it, what I might do is scan a spoof ballad I wrote for an only partly finished musical. In that musical one of my characters, a busker, is challenged to sing a ballad. He hates that, so he improvises a deliberately bad one. Wait for it, I'll have time to scan it this weekend.
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