What ABBA songs do you know? Mamma Mia? Money, Money, Money? Lay All Your Love on Me?
A fun night with good friends and the Star!
ABBA concert nostalgia with Waterloo, Fernando and Dancing Queen.
The original group’s bass guitarist Mike Watson played tonight- he is the backward facing Napoleon on ABBA’s Waterloo 1974 album cover!
We got to meet the star of the show prior to the concert. Very exciting
Here’s an interview with Matilda Lindell of course she donned a fabulous blonde wig for the performance. People were dancing in the aisles.
Here’s an interview with Matilda
“Fingerstyle guitarist/singer/songwriter Peter King and harmonica ace Marc Reisman are back at our home away from home, J. Gough’s Tavern, Friday, May 30, 5-7 p.m.
Gough’s offers exotic whiskeys and way-better-than-average pub grub, served by a friendly, attentive staff.”
Friday afternoon at the Tea Party held at the Stephen Foster Community Center, Juliana Matteo’s harp music was so lovely .
Contact Juliana via her email Wrote it out to prevent spam and bots
dancingharp at icloud dot com
Thursday night my friends and I had the most wonderful musical adventure with a guided tour of the Bayernhof Music Museum in Aspinwall PA. Thank you Judy for arranging this delightful and informative experience. So many different mechanical musical instruments and a wide range of sounds. You’d think you were in Bavaria as Mr.Brown collected not only musical instruments but art and wood carvings, Hummel figurines, antlers, chandeliers and beer steins. You name it, it was on a wall, a mantel or sideboard.
Joel and Georgeann were wonderful hosts. We were introduced to quite a range of instruments including two Reproducing Pianos which is never heard of before. .
Here are a few of the instruments we listened to. The tour is quite extensive and if you come to the Pittsburgh area you should plan a tour. This enormous home was built by Charles B Brown III in 1976 and upon his death became a mechanical musical instruments museum.
The first one Joel played was this Wurlitzer Automatic Harp but you have to put a nickel in first. Click here to listen
To listen to a clip from the Welte Number 2 Cottage Orchestrion Click here
And click the Automatic Banjo to listen
Put a nickel in!
Early disc click to listen
There were so many interesting, unique artifacts throughout the museum.
A favorite were two board games you might recognize.
There was even a telescope in an observatory
G
Attic Records in Millvale PA is a happening place. A music lovers paradise. There have to be more than a million items – vinyl records, CDs, 45s, boxed sets -You name it! Steve and I found some gems.
From my grandmother’s high school yearbook
Meet Peter King, guitar teacher. I’ve known Peter about 25 years and he invited me to photograph some of his students while he was teaching guitar- electric, acoustic, jazz, finger picking blues, rock- you name it.
You might have seen his photo on the blog performing with the Fast Friends Band.
Peter holds a Master of Music degree in guitar performance from Duquesne University, performs locally and has released several CDs.
I’m sorry to not have sound to accompany this musical post.
A note from Peter King:
To paraphrase the old Peace Corps ad, teaching guitar is the hardest job I’ve ever loved! The cool thing is — not only do my students learn, but they end up teaching the teacher new tricks as well. What’s more, we have big fun while we’re at it!
Here are some of Peter’s students in his music studio during their lessons.
My favorite shot at the end of the second session. My friend Janice (Peter’s wife) made a cameo appearance/photo bomb.
If you live in the Greater Pittsburgh area and you have always wanted to play the guitar, or brush up on your skills and repertoire, go to Peter King Music website and click on the lessons tab for more information.
Along the Spree River, in a building covered in vines, you can find Guitar Doc. Here’s Anthony working on his 100th guitar. His father being a handyman was always working with his hands so when Anthony was small, he’d look over his shoulder and watch and learn.
There’s a Vintage Guitar Lounge where you can take an instrument from the wall display and test it as you sit and play. Listen to the tone, feel the heft of the polished wood, strum and pick the strings.
A good day for an addition to the People at Work series.
Guitar Doc
https://www.guitardoc.de/ along the Spree River
Sunday June 9th at the Berlin Zoo.
You can see the roll of paper with the holes on it that makes the specific notes play, as it is cranked through the instrument.
harmonipan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_organ