Sunday. Beach day. Or it should be. But some days, you just feel as though you ought to stop and recharge. Today was that day. Besides photography, music is my go-to relaxation gig. That, and theatre, and movies, and reading and...gee, can't wait until retirement when work stops getting in the way. But I digress.
I have a plan to rebuild my instrument collection over the next little while, starting with the bass clarinet. I'd like to return to the saxophone too, alto and or tenor. I plan to take up the Japanese drums again, somewhere along the way.
Thanks to one of the large synthesiser music specialists, I can have many of these and about 40 other instruments all in one little electronic package. And my trip to the Ginza today was to sus out this new 'instrument'.
Meanwhile, on the streets of the Ginza, where the streets are closed on Sundays to allow pedestrian traffic, the shopfronts make for interesting pics.
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| A little translucence by the bus stop |
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| Ito-ya: the best stationery shop |
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| Every person and their dog |
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| Facades |
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| Reflections |
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| Department store |
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| Fruit shop |
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| We're not sure about this one |
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| Outside the music shop... |
So now I have this 'instrument', I'll have to practice a little bit, actually quite a lot, but it looks certainly adequate enough to keep my hand in until the proper instruments come along...
[Camera : iPhone6s, 2.33pm, Lumix TZ-85, 3.47pm-3.55pm; 28 May 2017]
