Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

OOOPS! It was brought to my attention that I should have written a caption to go with the video on my last post.  Had I known that I clicked the button to put it on the post, I would have explained why I thought Salvador Dali and Walter Disney’s short collaboration was worthy to share with you.  Not only do I admire Salvador Dali’s work and foresight http://www.salvadordali.com/  but I have a loose relationship with Walt Disney’s cartoons!  When I was young, many years ago, Carl W. Stalling spent two weeks a year in my family’s Missouri home.  My grandparents (on my father’s side) were taking care of their nephew, Fred.  When I was 9 yrs old, they all moved into my parent’s home and all of a sudden we had a full house.  Carl was Fred’s brother and came to visit him every year from Hollywood CA.  For two weeks every summer, Carl played our old upright piano and tried to impart his talent to my hands.  I know you are probably wond...

Remember how it feels when you see something you’ve always known about and all at once you realize you’ve never really looked at it?   That’s what happened when I started taking pictures of early music keyboard instruments.   I realized that I had never really looked at the black and ivory keys on a keyboard.   Peter (my significant other) has an avid interest in early music especially the harpsichord.   He planned a trip to England and Scotland around collections of harpsichords, virginals, forte pianos and other early music instruments.   What an amazing trip and I’ll talk about it in other blogs.   He also planned a trip to the National Museum of Music in Vermillion South Dakota.   Check out their website and you just might want to go too!   http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/     After taking hundreds of pictures of keyboards, I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the variations.   Remember my previous posts about ‘The difference is in...