A reproduction of an ancient Celtic harp sits near some giant penny whistles, a tar frame drum, a Roman sistrum, a long-neck banjo, and some duduks from Armenia. There’s a Baroque guitar some Colombian gaita flutes a French musical saw a shourangiz (a Persian instrument resembling a traditional poet’s lute) an Array mbira (a giant chromatic thumb piano, made in San Diego) a Turkish clarinet and a Chinese guqin. I feel them even more when I’m learning a new instrument.Īs I write this, on a laptop in my kitchen, I can see at least a hundred instruments around me. I played it with extreme force, sometimes bleeding onto the keys. Afterward, I was both boundlessly angry and attached to the piano. When I was just a boy, she died in a car accident. ![]() ![]() She taught me the piano by holding her hands over mine, bending my fingers into arches above the keys. She was a concentration-camp survivor-a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. “Waves Only Get Real When They Break,” by Colin Farish (piano), Jaron Lanier (guzheng), and Jhaffur Khan (flute).
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