Playing harmonica can be tough on your lipstick

One of my New Year's goals was to learn how to play harmonica. I have a perfect teacher, my husband, who happens to be a great harmonica player. He attempted to give me a couple of lessons about two years ago, but I'm somehow forgetting why we stopped. I think it was because he lost patience with me as I kept hitting the wrong notes. Or, did I lose interest because I soon realized that this is going to be a long process and I'm famously lacking patience? Yeah, I think it was the latter. (And, I got sore lips.)

But, I've had a great desire lately to learn how to play. So, in order to familiarize myself with this instrument I've been slowly locating the boxes where Terry's harmonicas are stored...

 

This box of harmonicas accompanied him on his travels through Africa and Asia. It's an old Dutch tin cigar box (note the hindu god decals he decorated the box with) which perfectly held nine harmonicas. As I have learned there are 12 harmonica keys, but he never played several of them. Why? I guess I'll soon learn!

Let's open the tin box... and here they are...

 

I love this peacock feather he kept in there.

And here are a couple more, new, still in their boxes, that we'll be using for learning and throwing on the floor in frustration...

Hmm, do you think I will have to forget about my lipstick while I'm playing? 

 

Impossible, I can never be without lipstick, I wear lipstick even when I'm cleaning! I think this requires for me to go some permanent lipstick shopping.

 Btw, this would be a good add for permanent lipstick: ~ It takes you through your harmonica lessons without a smudge. ~ Maybe I have a future as a copy writer?:)

Will keep you posted on my progress.

xoxoxo

Comments

[emily]

i really want to learn to play the harmonica. it seems like all the cool people do it.

[Susan]

How about wearing a lip stain (Benetint?) under lipstick so your lips won't be nekkid after a harmonica session? Just a thought.

Terry's boxes are wonderful little art pieces in themselves. Lucky girl.

(You look lovely in the pix.)

ciao-meow, cara

[m. heart]

Whether you learn to play them or not, those boxes of harmonicas are very beautiful. I'm curious about the peacock feather in combo with the Hindu stickers, because I read somewhere that Swami Muktananda used to touch people with a peacock feather to transmit "shaktipat" from guru to disciple. I wonder if there's some connection there?

And I'm glad I'm not the only one who wears lipstick to clean. I put on lipstick even if nobody else is going to see me all day. Harmonica playing doesn't bode will for me either.

[m. heart]

Oh duh, I just reread and realized Terry is your husband - I was thinking these were much older! Probably not related then, just a coincidence!

[Paolo (Catfish) Ganz]

Great story & harmonicas case!
Try again: playing harp is great!
(Don't worry about lip-stick!)

Mr Catfish

[Fernando Aureliano]

So, how is going the progress?