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Thursday, February 16, 2023
Flute
Our last musical nudist is a solo flutist. It too, me quite a while to figure out
that the odd looking thing at right was his shadow. It's been that kind of day.
There is much Classical influence here... either the model or the photographer knew exactly what he was doing. Fauns and satyrs were often pictured with their legs crossed in this way, playing pipes. And the shadow is fabulously spooky.
Technically, it's a recorder, not a flute. The confusion between the two is not helped by the fact that hundreds of years ago, the recorder was called a flute (and in German, it's still called a Blockflöte). But today, flute generally means the "transverse flute" where the player blows across a hole near the end of it, and recorder means the instrument where the player blows into the end of it. Nice photo, and I'm sorry to be pedantic.
Ruby Tuesday is perhaps my favourite song of the 1960s - a tall order when there were just so many songs of the highest quality. The recorder goes very deep into popular English musical history and Brian Jones touched a number of nerves with his arrangement for his enigmatic lyrics.
To be honoust -and I know, tastes differ, but still- this perticular 'Pan' is so utterly gorgeous, it took me a while... to notice the shape to the right .. AT ALL ;-)
There is much Classical influence here... either the model or the photographer knew exactly what he was doing. Fauns and satyrs were often pictured with their legs crossed in this way, playing pipes. And the shadow is fabulously spooky.
ReplyDeleteI think that shadow looks like the cover of a Jethro Tull album I once had.
DeletePan und seine Floten ! Ja, ein klassisches Bild des Mythos und der Antike mit diesem hubschen Jungling und dem schroffen Gelande.
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skyggen er som en ambivalent and, som tvinger ungdommen til a gjor sin vilje.
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Technically, it's a recorder, not a flute. The confusion between the two is not helped by the fact that hundreds of years ago, the recorder was called a flute (and in German, it's still called a Blockflöte). But today, flute generally means the "transverse flute" where the player blows across a hole near the end of it, and recorder means the instrument where the player blows into the end of it. Nice photo, and I'm sorry to be pedantic.
ReplyDeleteYou just made me think of Brian Jones doing Ruby Tuesday on the Ed Sullivan Show.
DeleteRuby Tuesday is perhaps my favourite song of the 1960s - a tall order when there were just so many songs of the highest quality. The recorder goes very deep into popular English musical history and Brian Jones touched a number of nerves with his arrangement for his enigmatic lyrics.
DeleteTo be honoust -and I know, tastes differ, but still- this perticular 'Pan' is so utterly gorgeous, it took me a while...
ReplyDeleteto notice the shape to the right .. AT ALL ;-)
Completely understandable.
DeleteIn this fine image Nijinsky comes to mind, Nijinsky and the spirit of the Faun....:)
ReplyDeleteYes, in the shadow.
DeleteJa, on je kot Nijinsky in bog Pan. Zelo nenavadna kompozicija.
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