Weekly Challenge June 29 - July 6: Musical Instruments

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ohkphoto

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Weekly Challenge: June 29 --July 6

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Ohkphoto was the winner of the "Sky" Weekly Challenge and issued the "Eyes" Weekly Challenge and has chosen Curt as the winner.

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This week’s challenge is Musical Instruments, any kind of instrument that creates music. It can be a brand new instrument, or a very old one. All musical instruments have a history, a story. It could be an instrument that was played in the London Philharmonic orchestra. or a guitar that was played in a heavy metal band. Be creative, tell a story.

[FONT=&quot]Be sure to visit the Weekly Challenge Rules & Guidelines for more information. This thread will be closed on July 6 (midnight EDT)...so get those photos in!


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[FONT=&quot]1. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Photos must be posted to the thread in order to be considered for the challenge.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]2. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread and taken by you![/FONT][FONT=&quot] Because not all [/FONT][FONT=&quot]EXIF[/FONT][FONT=&quot] data can be verified, we will use the honor system here.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Challenges will be judged solely by the winner of the previous week. There will be no individual voting.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]4. [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Only one photo entry per member, for each challenge.[/FONT]

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There will be no cash or prizes awarded for the Weekly Challenge, unless specifically noted by the site administrator. This is a member-run contest, and the purpose of the Weekly Challenge is to encourage member participation on the forums and to keep you taking pictures!

Any photo will be accepted for the challenge. Edited/straight out of the camera, it does not matter. You are left with complete freedom to do whatever genre of photography you wish to do, and your own interpretation of the challenge subject.
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Carolina Photo Guy

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The Path to Stardom is from the bridge to the hat!

(I found out that i have trouble playing the radio! But this pluck box looks good on the wall!) ;)

Enjoy
 

Kim20

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This old drum Is one of my favorite items, along with the antique spectacles. I have no idea how old the drum is, but the spectacles are from the late 1700's according to my searches. The hand written music sheets, The Pearl of Mexico, was written by George Warnicker, unfortunately there is no date of his work, but I think they were written in the early 1900's.
 

Kim20

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Sorry about the double post, I was just trying to add the title to the other piece of sheet music.
 

Dave Hamilton

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Being a life long musician this challenge should have been easy for me but I'm in Guatemala!!! I'll have to find something to shoot down here!!!

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I posted this one a few weeks ago so it is not part of the challenge.
These are my horns (Mount Vernon Bach Stradivarius, Harrelson 750 Modification of a Bach Strad C-trumpet, Kanstul Flugal, Schilke Piccolo Trumpet) surrounded by my wife's piano keys. Rags belongs to my daughter and was given to her by one of my band students 16 years ago. They all sit on a wall at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where I majored in music.
 

Dave Hamilton

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The Cathedral in Antigua, Guatemala was once one of the most fantastic structures in the world. Construction of that Cathedral began in 1545. In 1668 the Cathedral was destroyed by an earthquake. Construction of the “new Cathedral took from 1669- 1680, and that Cathedral was demolished by an Earthquake in 1773. It took many years to redesign the Cathedral and in its’ present form the Cathedral takes up about one tenth of the original building. The ruins of the old Cathedral are now a site protected by UNESCO and sit just as they have for 238 years.

The organ was constructed in 1830. It has survived many smaller earthquakes to serve the Cathedral for 181 years. The organ was restored to it’s current state in 1950.

There is a plate on the organ that reads (after my poor translation); “In Memory of Don Mariano Lopez - in the first century of the fabrication of this organ -Sanctify unto me sane the Felig the Parroci Julio Martinez Flores. Antigua, Guatemala”


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Browncoat

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Damn, this challenge is coming a week early. :(

Next week, I'll be photographing some famous musicians including Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, and Lady Antebellum.
 

Browncoat

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We ain't got much here in rural Ohio, but we do have the Country Concert! It's kind of like Woodstock each year, as country music fans around the nation come for the 3-day annual festival. This town just about doubles in size.

I hate country music, but I'll be given a press pass for this event for the paper...so I'll be going w/ earplugs. I'll have to post some of the photos because it's always a redneck paradise at this thing.
 

AxeMan - Rick S.

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Next week, I'll be photographing some famous musicians including Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, and Lady Antebellum.

Oh, aren't we special.:p Sounds like a great opportunity. Can't wait to see the photos. I'm sure "they" come out of the woodwork on this one. Got a spare set of ear plugs? ;):D:cool: JK/LOL
 

Browncoat

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LOL, yeah...I'm special. But only because I rode the little bus to school. :p

Actually this concert is part of the reason I took this internship job in the first place. Great portfolio builder!
 

Just-Clayton

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After many shots and set ups, (with the judging of my wife) I decided on this one.

My father-in-law loved music. Especially blue grass and country. He learned to play several instruments growing up. He even taught his sons to play guitar. The one photo shows a couple of his sons and him in their costumes as they played around the area, mostly for the grange hall and barn dances. He really got into his fiddle playing. I myself didn't get the chance to hear him play. I found his fiddle one day under his bed, was going to fix it up so I could hear him play, but never got the chance. Charlie and his wife Adhelia passed away 5 yrs ago, 3 months apart. As you see, I left the fiddle the way it was. I feel it looks better that way.
 

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