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CornerShot
Sunday, February 17, 2013
I love old musical instruments, and have a few. Not Stradivarius old, but older than I am.
I buy them because they sound good, and in some cases they’re cheaper than new ones. But I love them because they’ve lived.
They’ve made music in orchestras and dance bands and bedrooms and basements and bars. They’ve been caressed and maybe cussed at. They have histories. They show their age.
My oldest instruments — the 1954 clarinet, the 1939 upright bass — were likely owned once by people no longer on Earth. So in playing them, I commune with the dead. We share something profound, regardless of our skills.
Someday, someone else will likely play my instruments and know something about me, though they won’t even know my name.
Because old instruments absorb their owners and move on. They outlive us.
1. COMMENTARY: A letter to the ones left behind
2. Military bristles at Roanoke County woman's 'Operation Bedsheet'
3. Blacksburg police investigate death of 24-year-old woman
4. 2 men charged in Blacksburg break-in Monday
5. Marion police chief arrested on drug charge
6. Archaeologists uncover pieces of the past at Washington & Lee
7. Dublin town attorney Baker found guilty of reckless driving, not DUI
8. New River Community College shooting suspect waives right to preliminary hearing
9. Bond set for Roanoke man charged in death of stepson
10. Franklin County to purchase 2 YMCA properties, fund new career and technical center
THE ROANOKE TIMES
