Music Lesson In a Tree

[bunn]

It was little Celegorm’s idea that Cousin Fingon’s music lesson should take place in a tree.  It’s possibly not the least distracting place to have a music lesson.   Fingon and Maglor are playing Anglo-saxon style harps (hearpe) which are much more practical for climbing trees (or Thangorodrim) with than a modern harp would be.  Fingon is playing a jewelled silver hearpe, which Maglor rather disapproves of (I decided that Maglor should disapprove of silver harps when I remembered that Elrond's harp at the end of Lord of the Rings is silver.  That might not make sense, but hey.)

I have decided that the auto settings do a better job of photographing paintings than I do manually. This was taken with a 28mm manual focus lens, and the 'landscape' camera mode.

As usual, I liked the pencil sketch of the faces better than the final painted version:

Comments

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

That's very sweet!

This is a very interesting thing, a Myanmar harp, which I saw and heard played recently. THe modern version has tuning pegs, but the original uses a complicated system of knotted string.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKd8aAXP57Q

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that does look complicated to tune! I wonder what the strings are made of, they don't look like the usual synthetics.

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

Cotton, usually. The main body is wood, but the bit on top that forms the soundboard is deer-skin or ox-hide.