and it’s time to start blogging again. Seriously, I wondered if I’d ever get back in the habit, but a curious thing happened to me a few days ago, and my Beloved said, “You should put that in your blog.”
A very nice gentleman emailed me asking me to help him discover what strange instrument his great-grandfather had bought when serving in WWI France. He wrote his mother that he had bought a mandolin and a “xxx” – the gentleman scanned the letter for me and asked me if I could decipher the script. In the end, it was not an instrument, but a puppy. I laughed a lot, and then thought – so this is why I have a blog. People need musicologists.