the rebec, the pochette, and the trumpet marine

My stress response this past week appears to be researching early instruments; this is partly brought on by pennsic, and partly by (modes class handout in hand) running across a beautifully dismal selkie verse (the one at the bottom of the entry) which clearly needed a simple tune in hypodorian, and which would of course be properly accompanied on rebec, rather than my violin.

( a somewhat wordy survey of the rebec, the availability of such, and people who've talked about making them on the internet... )

( a fiddle to fit in your greatcoat pocket )

( the Trumpet Marine is neither a brass nor oceanic )

ETA-- but Lark in the morning sells a trumpet marine, if anyone else desperately needs one. In fact, they've even got a "cheap" model for special order!

the rebec, the pochette, and the trumpet marine

My stress response this past week appears to be researching early instruments; this is partly brought on by pennsic, and partly by (modes class handout in hand) running across a beautifully dismal selkie verse (the one at the bottom of the entry) which clearly needed a simple tune in hypodorian, and which would of course be properly accompanied on rebec, rather than my violin.

( a somewhat wordy survey of the rebec, the availability of such, and people who've talked about making them on the internet... )

( a fiddle to fit in your greatcoat pocket )

( the Trumpet Marine is neither a brass nor oceanic )

ETA-- but Lark in the morning sells a trumpet marine, if anyone else desperately needs one. In fact, they've even got a "cheap" model for special order!

Xposty from dreamwidth, but yes, I'm still here.

It seems that earthquakes do not disturb my garden, just my cat.

Today's progress is less obvious from the outside, but here's the picture looking up from the basement:



Of course, what with them whacking holes in the concrete slab of ex back porch all morning, and the cat dashing about madly, I didn't initially even recognize the earthquake; it wasn't enough of a difference between the house rattling and the walls actually shaking side to side to tip off my brain that I ought to be particularly worried about this, and besides the guys next door were yelling about "the house shouldn't be moving" and so for some reason my back-brain assumed that they all had it well in hand. At any rate, it didn't shake enough to dislodge anything heavy enough to shatter, so except for the cat spending the next three hours under the bed upstairs (and while I couldn't coax him to move the five inches to sniff my fingers five minutes after the fact, I'm pretty sure by the end of the first hour or so he'd just decided that made a good place to nap) This was pretty representative of the "damage":

( pictures of fallen things, & then garden things, though sadly the butterflies still refuse to hold still long enough to photograph. )

It seems that earthquakes do not disturb my garden, just my cat.

Today's progress is less obvious from the outside, but here's the picture looking up from the basement:



Of course, what with them whacking holes in the concrete slab of ex back porch all morning, and the cat dashing about madly, I didn't initially even recognize the earthquake; it wasn't enough of a difference between the house rattling and the walls actually shaking side to side to tip off my brain that I ought to be particularly worried about this, and besides the guys next door were yelling about "the house shouldn't be moving" and so for some reason my back-brain assumed that they all had it well in hand. At any rate, it didn't shake enough to dislodge anything heavy enough to shatter, so except for the cat spending the next three hours under the bed upstairs (and while I couldn't coax him to move the five inches to sniff my fingers five minutes after the fact, I'm pretty sure by the end of the first hour or so he'd just decided that made a good place to nap) This was pretty representative of the "damage":

( pictures of fallen things, & then garden things, though sadly the butterflies still refuse to hold still long enough to photograph. )

Xposty from dreamwidth, but yes, I'm still here.