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#fine art #florida1916

#Edward Hopper #my look at the patio

#old window shade at the auction hose

Tarpon springs.....

Midges and Grand River lighthouse!

Dead end !

Weird cloud over abandoned building

Wall in Ga.

2013 production !

sebbetyp-blog

My attempt at creating the GoT feeling with a 5-string kantele using the. D-minor scale. Good night from Sweden.

#Sweet !

Максим Гаврилов. Я жизнь посвятил кантеле.

This video expresses a certain "essence" of the Finnish/Karelian culture. It speaks to an aesthetiic and to emotions that I find hard to express.

This is one of my first attempts to use guitar tuners....All sassafras....

The Mystique of the Finnish Kantele

They say that there is magic, even music, in wood. Working in the shop last night, the plane seemed to sing as it busied itself, working on a kantele. More remarkable, Jouhiorkesteri was on the ipod and the plane (hoyla...pardon my keyboard) was in sync with them !!! It was as if I was only a spectator. Maybe I'm nuts ?

Said old Vainamoinen:

"Do not weep now, tree so green,

Leaf-bedecked and girdled white!

You will have a merry future,

New and joyous life awaits you.

Soon now you will weep for gladness

And sing out in ecstasy."

Then he carved the weeping birch tree,

Whittled out an instrument;

On a summer's day he carved it,

Saped it to a five-stringed harp....

Runo 44 The Kalevala