That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 19, 2021

As a defense mechanism, Fluffy would sleep during these twice a week ordeals.

“To save our sanity, I think it will be better if you switch to air guitar.”

“Let us stop until next week, since you have driven the poor dog stark raving mad.”

What key does In-A Gadda-Da-Vida work best for me?

Didn’t you see the sign? “No Stairway!”

During the merciless killing of the innocent tune, Johann had a sudden epiphany: the top string on the instrument Helga was defiling was the perfect length for a garrote.

That’s funny-timely.

taking the new ovation double neck lute for a test run…

“Cool it, Milou, I said strum— not strumpet !”

“I knew I’d get in Dutch trying to teach you an instrument!”

Her fam’ly may have overfed ‘er/ and she may not LOOK much like a “shredder”/but, defying the gods/ she’ll dazzle the clods/ by playing a cool “double-header” !

Nuthin’ could be “sicker” than a double-limericker in the mor-or-ornin’…

But seriously, folks – ain’t those Dutch genre painters amazing ?

Fluffy was getting really tired of hearing “My Dog Has Fleas”.

“I think we’ve ruined that song enough for today.”

Don’t be mistaken – she is treble. She baroque many a music teacher.

Nice, timely caption!

Once she successfully mangles the tune on the mandolin, she’s going to take it outside and pluck it out on the big boy laying on the table, for all to hear.

After her third guitar teacher quit, Ann decided to leave the guitar playing to her sister Nancy.

“Go get your banjo and let’s have a duel….I’m tired of this lute!”

While Glenda struggled to read the notes in the dimly lit studio the master stared at her cleavage.

“More cowbell…”

You’re doing great! And it will sound even better when we put some strings on it…….Now where was that cat?

Ma’am, please stop whacking your breasts against the back of the instrument. This tune does not require percussive accompaniment.

Yet another buyer of Bert Weedon’s “Play in a Day”

Madeline on the mandolin never quite mastered Stairway to Heaven.

She lacked the finesse and manual dexterity but possessed a great deal of enthusiasm and tenacity, so Maestro Peter had her switch from the lute to the flute.

“I need background for inspiration. Just why was there SMOKE ON THE WAAAATERR? Oh. And FIRE IN THE SKY?”

“If you’re going to get serious about the mandolin, you need to realize that you’ll spend half your time tuning, and the other half being out of tune.”

No wonder your playing is so awful. That’s not your music book, that’s your cookbook.

Money for nuthin and your chicks for free…

The Music Lesson: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerard_ter_Borch_-_The_Music_Lesson_1512.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/terborch_gerard.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/gerard-terborch 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/terborch/terborch_bio.htm 

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/376/gerard-ter-borch-dutch-1617-1681/ 

https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.983.pdf 

https://prabook.com/web/gerard.ter_borch/3743138 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/t/terborch/biograph.html 

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/european-art-1600-present-biographies/gerard-ter-borch 

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/masters/terborchbase.html 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/old-masters/gerard-terborch.htm 

http://hoocher.com/Gerard_Terborch/Gerard_Terborch.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 14 works by him have been used here (15 times, including a repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/05/19?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included one of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2647 (February 18, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

When I’d screwed up sufficiently, my instructor attempted to cheer me up by telling me “You’re very musical”. Didn’t work.

Although she preferred the cello, her teacher assured her that the lute would be much more portable for parties.

just in case her mandolin doesn’t work out, she had a cello under her dress, poor dog.

she was great at the “HOTEL CALIFORNIA” riff

If you can’t learn the strings … you’ll have to go back to playing my flute.

Cruz isn’t tone deaf, he’s just a republican’t – can’t sink lower than that…

Bob determined that it was best to use wire cutters to tune Mildred’s mandolin.

Enough with the singing. The dog is asleep and my hope has risen!

“It’s da-da-dum-da-dah. Not da-dum-dum-dah-da.”