Instrumental

Day 130
Challenge: Be inspired by music.

I recently purchased this clarinet 
at a local vintage shop.

It is great fun rediscovering the instrument I played in high school over 40 years ago!

In the wide world could there be such a thing as clarinet music with a snail theme?

'Turns out there is! I discovered a story by Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen, about a snail who criticizes a rosebush. 

http://www.portitude.org/literature/andersen/ft-snail_and_the_rosebush.php

And searching further, music composed for that story by Elaine Fine . . .  a clarinet solo accompanied by piano. 

http://thematiccatalog.blogspot.com/2007/06/snail-and-rosebush.html

The music seems difficult to access AND difficult for me to play . . . so perhaps another day . . . but I also came upon this delightful little snail composition in my searching:

http://soundcloud.com/mikhailally/jar-of-snail-music

Along with other items, both snail shells and clarinet (bass) are identified 

as "instruments" for this original piece of music! I hope you enjoy it.

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Sometimes I begin to think 
I've come to the end of snail possibilities 
and snail learning.

But not YET!

(This is SO MUCH fun.)