That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 30, 2024

My original post in 2021:

Harpo after the treatment.

Female harpists, like Amazons, had to have one of their breasts removed.

My original comment: “No, I don’t know how to play this thing, but I do know how to pose with it.”

/// Angélique’s name had fueled her desire

to learn playing the harp and the lyre.

She’d dress only in white

and dreamed one day she might

take her place in the heavenly choir.

/// Her demeanor was godly and meek,

never raising her voice when she’d speak.

And her knees would grow weak

when men asked Angélique

If she’d show them her fingering technique.

Yeah, let’s hear you play “Eruption”.

Can you Finish What Ya Started?

I had to fight some Silly man to get my instrument back. His Brother nearly burned down the place with his cigar.

“Not Eddie Van Halen, Ludwig Van Halen, his great-great-great-grandfather.”

In her favorite gown ( it’s empire !)/

She simpers – her harp standing near/

But make no mistake:/

She’s proof you can’t make/

a silk purse out of a sow’s ear..

Anybody seen my dad Hatpo?

She is just harping on the point over and over again.

One more crappy comment about my playing and I’ll show you a trick it’ll do with an arrow.

If you’ve ever seen The Harp Twins, Van Halen sort of makes sense.

Well, you don’t have to harp on about it.

The inspiration for those Magic Fingers machines in motels. 25 cents for 15 minutes of bliss.

The only stringed instrument I ever learned how to play was my yo-yo.

Freebird!

PANAMA !!!!!

PANAMA!!!!

Go to youtube and search “Harp Twins”; a pair of lovely young ladies playing all kinds of music on harps (sometimes electric harps, which I didn’t know was a thing). Not sure they do VH, but I think so.

“Throwback Thursday”, also known as “Steve’s Day Off.”

Thankfully, she didn’t take up the cello!

ORANGE BLOSSM SPECIAL !!!

Coincidentally, this very painting is featured in this month’s “Smithsonian.”

“No thanks. Do you know ‘Cold Gin’?”

So clothes for girls back then consisted of a sack tied with a ribbon?

I am Julie….my fingers are trained to make music and other things……..

The Young Harpist: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Harps in paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, 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 Boilly, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2706 (5/13/21) (May 29, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 10 works by this artist have been used here (12 times total, including this and a prior Throwback Thursday repeat), the May 13, 2021, strip being its first use. The October 21, 2021, strip has the prior by him (the other repeat), and the June 28, 2021, strip has the prior non-repeat by him.

Sorry. I’m off the clock right now. I have to haul this down to symphony hall and tune it for the concert tonight.

Don’t push me! I’m a woman on the edge, I’ve got a harp and I ain’t afraid to use it!

Might as well. :)

Estelle was frustrated with the hairstylist, and was determined to torture her with the harp music.

How’s about “Stairway to Heaven?”

maybe some Pink Floyd or Zeppelin

B minor? How’s that? Did I get it right? I’m s’posed to be able to grab it without looking.

FREEBIRD