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More Instruments

March 29, 2012

Last month I returned to the MIM to draw some more exotic instruments. As before, I had so much fun sketching that I forgot I was in a music museum. The instruments are so carefully crafted and so cool looking that it really is more like being in an art museum.

I also enjoy wearing the headphones because then when annoying onlookers try to talk to me I can just pretend I didn’t hear them. I often get lured into a conversation by someone pretending to be interested in the sketching, only to find myself trapped 30 minutes later as the person is talking my head off. Hey I came to draw, not hear your life story. Such is the burden of the urban sketcher.

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The MIM part 2

June 27, 2011

A couple days after the symphony I went back to the MIM with my mom and grandma to check out the actual museum. I didn’t expect to last longer than an hour or so as I’ve never really been a big music person. But that’s a the great thing about sketchbooks. As long as you have one, you never really get bored. And the museum was great. There were thousands of instruments and they were all so weird and fun and crazy looking that I forgot it was a music museum and started thinking it was in an art museum. And in a way, I guess I was, because these instruments were definitely works of art.

We ended up staying there almost three hours.

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The MIM part 1

June 27, 2011

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A couple months ago my husband won some tickets on the radio to go see a symphony at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM for short). A part of me did NOT want to go because I’d had a really long day and was feeling pretty depleted, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go for free. Plus, I had never been to a symphony before.

Boy was I glad that I sucked it up and went. The music was quite nourishing and I had a fun time sketching the musicians. Drawing people with instruments is always a challenge so it was good opportunity for practice.

Also the seats were really comfortable.

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