As promised, one of our other “picks” from Green Shag market is guitar-related:
Amongst JT’s dizzying array of guitars, can you pick out the new (old) stand? The previous stand was a little tech-y and JT was always having to pack it up to take with him to gigs. Now this new sculptural beauty can stay put in the music room (although the back leg does fold in for transport).
Better yet, it can also hold acoustic guitars which the old stand couldn’t handle.
(Not pictured with an acoustic guitar though — for the most part his Gibson lives in its case with its humidifier . . . )
We also found a bundle of old teacher’s aids posters. They were all 18×24 or larger and really affordably priced for larger scale artwork.
There was a spot in the music room needing some art. There are actually a lot of spots in our house needing some art, but let’s start with this spot. For most of our time in this house, we were displaying our diplomas here:
But college graduation is fast becoming a memory and I need the frames for some artwork in the KITCHEN so down them came.
I didn’t have a large frame for our new poster and wasn’t really willing to spend any amount of $ on it. I had some mat board down in the basement so I measured out the interior opening I would need, brushed on a few coats of black acrylic craft paint and jerry-rigged together a hanging mechanism out of some painter’s tape and a piece of leather cord.
Ta da, artwork! (Or back of artwork, at any rate . . . )
The back says this “Specimens of original 19th-century American wood type. From American Wood Type by Rob Roy Kelly. Copyright 1969 by Litton Educational Publishing Inc. Courtesy of Rob Roy Kelly and Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. Then it goes on to detail educational facts about typography and the interplay of negative and positive shapes. That’s a lot of words to retype. We’re more worried about what it looks like in the music room, right?
And I like that it’s music related (ish?) Can anyone else see the word “Hum” or is this just one of those Magic Seeing Eye posters with a different label on the back . . . The blue walls seem to color shift a little in each picture I take in there . . . just like the KITCHEN! Pictures of that next post!
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