If it makes you feel any more relaxed, Coz, I've had two perforated eardrums since childhood. I can hear a mouse fart. I can hear two separate clocks ticking in different rooms if the mice are quiet enough. You'll be okay in a couple weeks, buddy. Post those travel pics for us when you can, and feel better. 


*adding artsy picture from my workbench...

Nice photo, Greg

Nice artsy picture!

Beautiful pic - like calendar-grade cool!

And thanks for the encouragement.

Peter (who finally got an "urgent" appointment with the ENT for 13:30 Tuesday; other place he tried was scheduling "urgent" in February.......)

OK, here's a sample of the 300 or so pix I took; if we could put them right in the body, I'd label them, but that seems a bit unwieldy, so I'll leave you guessing.
And it seems it will take multiple posts.

Peter

Batch 2;

Peter

Batch 3:

Peter

These ones I will explain:

A Stradivarius from the Medicis' house quintet


They called it the first upright piano in history, but it appeared to be a harpsichord


Some seriously blingy hurdy-gurdies

Really old detuners; labeled a "piano guitar", it has courses of 1, 2, & 3 strings - all of which run over individual moving nuts, activated by the keys on the lower treble bout:  c. 1600s


Buskers in Napoli; percussionist has a set of various-lengthed PVC tubes, the ends toward him which he hit with rubber flip-flops minus their straps.  they were good!  (And a lesson for you youngsters:  If you set up in a tourist spot where a 5 minute break will give you a whole new crowd, you only need 1 ten-minute number eady......)


Peter

Nice group of photos.  I have heard the flip-flop pvc instrument before and it truly does have a nice tone.
The statues are amazing.   Creating those is truly art.

Great pics; must have been an amazing trip.

"Fire wheel burning in the air..."

Wonderful!

Jist past winyer solstice, the glorious Zeeland light at sundown.

It was very much like that here too, Adriaan. I had a last-minute call to fill-in with Harwell-Grice Band last night, and as I was setting up in the taproom of the brewery we were going to play in, out the windows I saw this happening, and just had to go be in that moment.