Category: art
Some Other World
You can find all artworks from this collection under the category: sejink.
Keytoy ~ Rainbluew Styling By Jepps
Readers of my blog will know I have dabbled in custom styling of melodicas before. Yet even whence dancing with the radioactive moon in the grace of the night, I still felt my one true love to be amiss.
I have discovered gradually over many years that my “problem” with the melodica is nothing to do with its performance, or that it is a “one handed” instrument.
Nay, for even a trumpet is a one handed instrument and besides, the performance of a melodica is purely a question of decent reed quality and adjustment.
Indeed, the base model featured here is a Hohner Superforce 37. Give the reeds a personal tweak and she will be your spouse for life.
No, my “problem” in the end all crunched down to aesthetics. How does it look and feel to hold?
Thus after experimenting a few times, I decided it was high time I actually put in some serious effort to design my own “Jepps” style.
Keytoy ~ Radioactive Styling By Jepps
The result? A finely tuned and responsive, totally radioactive Keytoy.
It had been begging me to do it. In fact the day it arrived the first thing it said was, “Please don’t call me a Superforce 37…”
Damn right. Whilst my favourite Keytoy, or Melodica, or whatever you want to call it, the name SUPERFORCE 37 has never settled with me on any particularly personal level, at all.
Hence, in addition to the reed adjustments I spent a good couple of hours undertaking, the abominable logo has now gone from its now most graciously decorated face.
A Present Day
Matters…
You can find all artworks from this collection under the category: sejink.
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Egyptian Grandmaster
I still have a few in my collection, including a Certificate Of Sacred Art, awarded to me by Armando Farina, an Italian art instructor who happens to have known and even painted with Picasso.
The ink sketch which won the 1st place award is now lost somewhere amongst the art institution’s endless archives. However I can tell you it portrayed an eternal connundrum, of an artist drawing himself in an Italian park, drawing himself in an Italian park, drawing himself… etc.
Whilst I may never get that one particular picture back, here is one of the first drawings I ever made, titled ‘Egyptian Grandmaster’.
You can find all artworks from this collection under the category: sejink.
Xaphoon by Zariah
Here is a wonderful painting created by a female artist in Maui, Hawaii, who goes by the name Zariah.
As far as I am aware, this piece is actually called “Riddle”, but what draws one’s attention is the unique instrument tucked under the boy’s arm.
Without doubt, a Xaphoon, since the artist herself is from the exact same region where Brian Wittman invented it back in 1972.
This picture is actually a cropping of a much larger work of art, featuring this loveable but mischievous boy, having a laugh amongst the gardens with his friends.
Strikingly, he reminds me of Peter Pan, yet more to the point, if the Pocket Sax had actually been invented during J.M. Barrie’s lifetime, would the Xaphoon have then been the actual flute of Peter Pan?
Looks fairly conclusive to me.
