Homemade...

These are from Alan Lomax's collection--his own photographs--made on the recording expeditions in the American South in the 1930s. Source is the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs--see under Alan Lomax. I like the shot of the two horns, in particular...you can see we're lookin at a rusty funnel, some pipe and heavy tape--lots of tape. Or maybe it's wrapped cloth, bound with glue? That's more likely, given the economy of means. On the left is a kazoo--also homemade. The shapes here--and the complete absence of refinement (not that anyone would want to return to horns like these once a better instrument could be had)... It's the need for music --that's what shines through...

I see Angie and Nathaniel...and several of the rest of you here...