That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 24, 2023

That’s one way to develop her skills.

Do you know “Room To Move” by John Mayall?

They also play harmonicas on the side.

“… At a time when women were gaining independence from their traditional roles as wives and mothers and birthrates were dropping, Brown celebrated romance and marriage by depicting music making, an approved activity for courting couples…”

https://www.metmuseum.Org/art/collection/search/10240

Another artist that’s so desperate for an original theme, that his idea is two flute players.

Another couple flouting their romance.

Dueling flautists.

Madeline was rather disappointed. It was prom night and Harold’s request to “play my flute” was greatly misunderstood.

See? Isn’t blowing my flute much more fun than plucking your harp?

“You play that wonderfully, I would be honoured if you would play my personal and most prized flute.”

Budgetary constraints were making it tough to start a band

Ah, courtship. Playing the flute together….something else they won’t be doing together after so many years of marriage.

If they start blowing at the same time, I am leaving here!

“Mine’s bigger.”

Man teaching his girlfriend how to play his instrument

“ You know how to whistle, don’t you, kid? You just pucker up and blow..” – Lauren Bacall

Mildred, I’m fingering as fast as I can, you just keep blowing!

Her mom owns the house – he’s is a boarder:/

And mom tolerates no disorder:/

There’s temptation – no doubt/

mother’s orders to flout/

but her daughter just plays the recorder///

The flautist is skilled at his trade/

and her daughters one nubile young maid/

but mother is shrewd /

(keeps an eye on the dude) /

and the carpet is all that gets laid.

Posting that particular painting was kind of like leading with one’s chin.

It was easier to teach her how to blow and finger his flute than to instruct her on the proper method of plucking and strumming her harp … and there were no strings attached!

Little girl eating corn on the cob and leaving none for her hungry brother.

“Let’s move on to the skin flute…”

Another Great Moment…

Achievements in Mansplaining: Showing the concert flautist how to play.

“I must say, my dear, I greatly admire both your fingering technique and your breath control. You will make an excellent wife.”

“Well, I’m at a loss … I can’t do any better than you … perhaps we should have postponed your lessons until you were no longer wearing braces.”

“You’re right, John! Blowing is more fun than fingering!”

The Music Lesson: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1870 oil on canvas paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Music, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3209 (October 24, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 9 works by him have been used here (10 times total, including 1 repeat), the October 23, 2023, strip being the prior.

You take the right side, I take the left, you blow, and I suck and voila, the Harmonicats…

that’s good dear, get it hot then put one end in your mouth.

“The Music Lesson,” 1870