Spiders from Texas and other wonderous stories
Today Ulrik Gaston Larsen dropped by to record some Teorbe and Lute (baroque guitars). A very talented guy indeed! The most wonderful sound! Gives me a slight resemblance to the opening on PFM's "Appena un Po'" (Per un amico), which is not a bad thing at all..
Also last weekend Kristian recorded some great saxophone.
You are perhaps wondering where the spiders fit in to all of this? It's rather strange and silly acctually (plus i kind of like the headline).. Some months ago i bought a Chamberlin from Texas. And within the machinery was the nightmare when it comes to "the art of buying vintage-keyboards" (except perhaps blown fuses, curly tapes and dryed out machinery in urgent need of oiling). I was cleaning the old thing - it had propably been in a garage for the last 30 years (at least according to the amount mouse-droppings), when all of a sudden i saw something move slowly towards me. I didn't take that good look at it, I saw it was a huge spider and snatched it with the vacume cleaner. This would also explain the hige amount of web inside. Further on during the cleaning i discovered eight spider nests. Everything seemed cool for a couple of weeks, untill I one day saw yet another beast sitting on top of the machine. I knew this was the same kind, since we don't have house spiders that are 7 cm in diameter in Norway. This time I studied it real good, and concuded it could very well be "Daddy Long Legs" - and even though it's poisonous it's not (too) dangerous to humans. But still I'm always on the watch, -freaking everythime I see the smallest spider in out basement..
I think however the norwegian winter will end them rapidly. And speaking of which, -winter came all of a sudden two days ago! Welcome!