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November 25, 2003

Moving the harp

Pick up kid at train station in 45 minutes. Rush her to music school. Move concert harp down stairs, into Dobló, over to church for a concert. Back to music school afterwards. She's accompanying some recorders. A recorder concert. Last year I accompanied them on the cello. We're in the recorder accompanying business here. I don't mind them, although I think tin whistles get the same job done and are cooler. She seems to have a certain disdain for them, however. I suppose a harpist looks down on most instruments. You should hear her talk about the accordion.

Novel just took a 180 today. Big epiphany, plot-wise. Like, "no, she doesn't shoot him after all. And she doesn't go into the joint."

OTOH, just made it past 50k words on that one, so can concentrate on the other one. I love them both.

The rewrite, though. Boy.

Posted at November 25, 2003 04:10 PM
Comments

If they play harps in heaven, what do they play in hell? Untuned bagpipes? Untuned bagpipes with alpenhorn pipes?

Posted by: Eeksy-Peeksy at November 25, 2003 04:43 PM

I suppose that's culturally determined. Here in Austria, most people would guess accordeon. Accordion? Accordion. But only because most of them haven't been around bagpipes. Although, pipes can be quite nice. Seriously.

Posted by: mig at November 25, 2003 08:44 PM

I was just making the standard stupid joke about the pipes. I like them. Parents from Scotland, etc. A piper played at my father's funeral.

In my hell, the devil would be Scratch himself and the demons all turntablists. Though I'm told I was born during a Mitch Miller broadcast. Maybe they should all be scratching "Sing Along With Mitch" records.

Posted by: Eeksy-Peeksy at November 26, 2003 08:42 AM

Pipes can be awful, no doubt about it. Like any instrument. I'm partial to the uilleann pipes. I was just thinking, you could probably ask someone from China and they might say, "in hell, Chinese opera singers sing nonstop". I suppose they might have some wild reed instruments there too. Et cetera.

I suppose in my hell, Austrian pop radio plays. Or I have to learn a new cello tune daily.

Posted by: mig at November 26, 2003 08:55 AM

you know where to send the drafts, don't you?

Posted by: BAUKE at November 26, 2003 10:57 PM
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