That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 09, 2022

Anders got his first 12-string at the 5 guilder and dime.

Take off your hat! How can you hear anything with it on? And while you’re at it, cut your hair. Pheh! Kids and their music nowadays!

Michael Yagger was preparing for his big concert.

/// He’s a protégé of the marquise,

but his “music” is endless reprise.

Notes G, C, E and A;

that is all he will play,

with the odd lyric: “My dog has fleas.”

He brings his books and his instrument to parties. He never drinks beer. Meet the world’s most boring man.

when his girlfriend says “what a lyre” she isn’t insulting Gregor…

He isn’t the average brute..

No guitar, but rather a lute..

Looking over his shoulder

He does seem to smolder..

Could this painting be “still life, with fruit”…

Ah crap. Now I’ve got to start all over again.

Uke tune it to: my dog has fleas

VThe rest of the band may be so-so

But he is a real virtuoso..

Corelli or Händel

Very few hold a candle

To him, in a Concerto Grosso !

“And now for my 5 hour lute solo….”

hans tunes up for his maggie may solo.

sadly, they later decided to go with a mandolin…

And because his talent is real

He will practice with infinite zeal..

No Porsche will be crashed

No hotel suite be trashed…

This kid is the genuine deal !

He shouldn’t fret so much over the tuning.

And then, that will bring us back to Do?

Franz could never seem to get the H string in tune.

And … wait! Who put this brisket on my hat?

There used to be an old saying that a 60 year old lute player had spent 40 year tuning his instrument.

Charles, stop playing with your instrument and go take out the trash!

I’ll never get the Norwegian Wood tuning right on this thing.

I gotta admit, Melcher’s got a good one today. LOL

Somehow I’m reminded of the classic tune “Cleaning My Rifle and Thinking of You”:

https://youtu.be/TXYw94iSAjU

Sitting here, tuning his lute / Pretending he don’t know he is cute / He’s stringing along / Us all, for a song / Just so his own horn he can toot!

Hmmmm. I seem to have gotten my finger stuck in this thing.

The only known portrait of the famous Renaissance serial killer known as the Lute Strangler.

His roadie got stoned last night. There will be a 2 hour delay in the start of the show while he remembers how to tune a lute.

Seems to be broken. Now I’m going to have to go to Lute Center and get a new one…

When Hagar goes a-viking, he’s looting toons.

Yes, I’m tuning my lute. What else would I be doing?

“I’m so stoned!”

“You keep tuning your lute and you’ll go cross-eyed!”

Lance the Lutist was always a bit odd. It wasn’t just his mode of dress, nor his effete manners, it was his music! I mean, come on … who plays Ravel’s Bolero on the lute?

Just don’t come in when he’s blowing his flute.

This would be a lot easier if I could afford to buy strings!

Sometimes a lute is just a lute.

Unable to afford an apartment large enough for a full-size workbench, Levi found himself having to make concessions when it came to building lutes.

PETA is on the way to take this guy down for his apparel.

One of those Glam Punk Troubadours.

It was only when he finally finished tuning that he discovered the woman he was going to serenade had already left.

The Lute Player: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Baeck_-_Der_Lautenspieler.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispricelessblog.com/2022/02/masterpiece-2875/ 

and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Can’t tell if he has his pants on.

The fist rendition of Voodoo Child required the performer to firmly grasp the lute with their loins.

Keith Richards as a young man.

“Hey, don’t feel bad. A lot of lutes are bent at the neck.”

Everybody knew that he earned that feather in his cap by knowing how to tune a lute.

I didn’t realize it would take this long when they agreed to give it to me for a song. Perhaps I should change to an accordion …

what the hell is on his hat????

OK, ok, Lieut., I’m tuning as fast as I can!