That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 25, 2021

In the middle of her recital, Heléne realized her lute was tuned wrong.

Her parents figured she would grow into the instrument.

Use the lute force.

See sharp and you won’t be flat.

Somebody’s overcompensating

You strum that baby at the bottom of its register, and everything vibrates

Great Grandma Van Halen writing the intro to Eruption…

Juliette’s music instructor taught her to create a distraction if she hit a wrong note. She’d found few things were more distracting than a breast nonchalantly given a breath of fresh air.

Is that a musical instrument, or some BFG ‘wave motion gun’ out of an anime?

“A woman’s reach should exceed her grasp or what’s a tuning peg for?!?” After all, the pitch must be abso-lute!

I’m obsessed to know if she’s been schooled in string theory!

Her artistry on the lute/ is simply beyond dispute./ Yet she’s far from a snob:/ she prefers her day job/ in a house of ill repute.

A lute, but no zoot suit.

Sweet Music was made to amuse. / Had few earthly cares as a Muse. / Her biggest regret, / (though dwarfed by her fret), / was not giving birth to the Blues.

Personification of song / instinctively knew it was wrong / and, more than that, rude, / (since of love she’s the food,) / to bid her theorbo “so long.”

“This next song is dedicated to my left breast.”

Leading up to her 50 minute lute solo.

Let me introduce you to my little friend.

Somebody took art history in college. Good thing I did, or this one would have passed me by.

majestic painting, grand têton…

When she says she’d rather be drumming than strumming, she’s not a lyre.

When stripping, a gimmick is the thing/you need one to give your act zing/I start with a breast/ and when I’m undressed/I finish with “air on the g-string”.

This is a theorbo. You can learn about it and hear it played here:

https://laughingsquid.com/long-necked-theorbo-lute/

“She’s gonna need a longer arm”

A prime example of one of Q’s failures, the bazooka designed as a lute..

There were times when Kunigunda wished she had been the sister born with beauty rather than talent.

She need to get this thing tuned, before eddy showed up to start her lessons!!

“Thank you, thank you. And for my next song, I’m going to perform a medley of hits by Def Leppard.”

New meaning for the term riot and lute.

Playing the guitar has a nice sensation on my breasts!

The guys in the band loved to watch Lena tuning up. It was always a revelation when she did.

It’s all about the bass.

Laura tried to play the bass fiddle, but it was a bitch to tune.

Actually, he did: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Poster-Print-Guitarist-Modigliani/dp/B000I7YXJY

Mary Ford wondering when the hell Les Paul was ever going to get around to inventing the Les Paul.

Hey, don’t knock it! It worked for Janet Jackson!

Allegory of Music: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allegory_of_Music_MET_DT1387.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

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

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/l/la_hire/biograph.html 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/2993/laurent-de-la-hyre-french-1606-1656/ 

https://prabook.com/web/laurent.de_la_hyre/3723063 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/laurent-de-lahyre-lahire/biography 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here (3 times, including 1 repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/09/03?comments=visible 

has the prior (the repeat), which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 17 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative. On a historic note, it’s been 2500 strips, give or take, since that first appeared here, 2/8/12 (m/d/yy).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2714 (May 24, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

OK… Now I’m gonna crank this baby up to eleven! :>)

On Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows Roger McGuinn a portrait of his umpteenth grandmother.

♪♫ … long may the Wellerman come, to bring us lemons and tea and gum…♫

Ethel, playing that think reminded her of her last boyfriend, but not such a big ass.

She tries hard but her Bach’s worse than her Beithoven .

Just as she got the string back in tune, her boob popped out.

I keep telling them I need glasses to read the notes from this far away. But they don’t mind me playing anyway – for some reason.