OT - how many instruments can fit in one living room?

[avanutria]

Thought you folks might enjoy a shot of one of the places I visited last week in my travels to the west coast. If the owner of the room (and most of the instruments) wants to identify him-or-herself, be my guest. But install another door lock!

http://www.rit.edu/~eeg6662/cf/wayfarer_whistlestop.jpg

I counted over thirty instruments in this photo alone.

--Ava

[LimuHead]

My mom describing my house after a recent visit:

"His house looks like a music store! Instruments are everywhere!"

She is, of course, correct.

Edited to add: BTW, that's not my living room. Just wanted to make that clear.

To whoever's living room it is: Hey you play concertina too! That looks like a case from Sean Fallon (I love mine!), and is that a Wheatstone Anglo? (I play a Wheatstone 64 button English.)

[fatveg]

I counted over thirty instruments in this photo alone.

--Ava

I could only count 29 musical instruments and a banjo.

[Bloomfield]

I counted over thirty instruments in this photo alone.

--Ava

I could only count 29 musical instruments and a banjo.

ROFL!!!!

Good one. (neither of you counted the bodhran tipper, of course!)

[Tony]

I hope you didn't count that bong as a musicial instrument.

[LimuHead]

I hope you didn't count that bong as a musicial instrument.

Well, they do make that unmistakable gurgling sound. (Er, so I've, uh, heard.. )

[AnnaDMartinez]

Geeze, in the late sixties, our living room was literally full of old pre-war Martin guitars and old pre-WW2 Gibsons. The stuff in the living room became the beginning of Gruhn Guitars in Nashville! I mean NOTHING else was in the living room but the guitars, and the snakes...can't remember if George stopped bathing before or after I went back to Chicago!

[AnnaDMartinez]

Oops, damn it!

[avanutria]

To whoever's living room it is: Hey you play concertina too! That looks like a case from Sean Fallon (I love mine!), and is that a Wheatstone Anglo? (I play a Wheatstone 64 button English.)

Well, the box is mine - as are a couple of the whistles and one of the bodhrans. It is indeed a Fallon case, but the box is an Edgley.

[cowtime]

That looks like a small section of my brother's basement. You'd need to add several drum kits, many , many guitars, mixing boards, amps, keyboards, a piano,trumpet, bugle, banjo uke, many fiddles, and anything else you can think of musically- Literally!

[picardy third]

I just counted my collection with the total being around 40. Many guitars, clarinets, whistles, a space-eating hammered dulcimer, harmonicas, and a few others. There are also the amps that I don't count. It drives my wife crazy. I love how compact whistles are. I'll never strain to pick up my whistles to go to a gig!

[antstastegood]

That whistle-holder thing reminds me of how my doctor and dentist store their implements of torture.

[markv]

hmmm,

That Whistle stand looks pretty familiar. I think I know who's living room it is but will keep the secret. I'm just bummed you were that close by and didn't visit Oops! bit of a hint there.

Mark V.

[Martin Milner]

How does the owner make music on that bicycle?

I guess you could set the wheels spinning and then clackety clack on the spokes.. with a stick

or does it have a bell fitted?

or does s/he use the frame as a huge auld triangle?

[burnsbyrne]

Didn't PDQ Bach write a symphony for Bicycle and Alp Horn? Something like that.
Mike