Looking in this downtown window, I at first thought Selma had its very own guitar store! But these guitars are the featured "needful things" at this pawn shop.
Nice photo, lots of visual interest with the store window and the reflection of the street.
Musical instruments are indeed needed, aren't they. If we don't have something specially constructed, we make do with something of our own - spoons tapped on the bottoms of pots, combs to blow across the teeth, wet glasses' rims to run our fingers around and around.
Hi Annie. Selma actually used to have a Comb Concert on the library lawn. They handed out combs and tissue paper, and everybody gathered on a Sunday afternoon and played songs such as "When the Saints Go Marching In." It was fun!
I would have loved being able to play the guitar, but I am left-handed (I was forced to use my right hand to write). I started taking lessons but had to stop quickly as I was too "messy."
When I was in New Orleans two years ago, I bought a Fender to my son, a red and white one like the one in your photo.
Hi Marie, Thanks for your comment. I also have a son who plays guitar. He is left-handed like you and ordered a left-handed Fender guitar. There was just no way he could learn to play the right-handed kind.
Oh dear...seems like a lot of musicians have hit hard times in Selma! So many guitars.
The Great River Race is heavilly handicapped so that jokers and professionals can all compete. If you really want to discover the winner click on the web link I gave and yo will find the "who won" link somewhere on the site.
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Nice photo, lots of visual interest with the store window and the reflection of the street.
Musical instruments are indeed needed, aren't they. If we don't have something specially constructed, we make do with something of our own - spoons tapped on the bottoms of pots, combs to blow across the teeth, wet glasses' rims to run our fingers around and around.
Hi Annie. Selma actually used to have a Comb Concert on the library lawn. They handed out combs and tissue paper, and everybody gathered on a Sunday afternoon and played songs such as "When the Saints Go Marching In." It was fun!
I would have loved being able to play the guitar, but I am left-handed (I was forced to use my right hand to write). I started taking lessons but had to stop quickly as I was too "messy."
When I was in New Orleans two years ago, I bought a Fender to my son, a red and white one like the one in your photo.
Hi Marie, Thanks for your comment. I also have a son who plays guitar. He is left-handed like you and ordered a left-handed Fender guitar. There was just no way he could learn to play the right-handed kind.
Oh dear...seems like a lot of musicians have hit hard times in Selma! So many guitars.
The Great River Race is heavilly handicapped so that jokers and professionals can all compete. If you really want to discover the winner click on the web link I gave and yo will find the "who won" link somewhere on the site.
Wouldn't it be fine if the comb concert was revived!
Oh, I just want to grab them! :)
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