Instruments

Mary Beth and I went on a good relatively long walk in the afternoon. In the early evening we went up to Crosstown for this show by a duo called Fetén Fetén. They're from Spain and their thing is they go through a bunch of different styles of traditional Spanish music and they have a lot of handmade instruments from household objects (one's main instrument is violin and the other's main instrument is accordion). The accordionist made several flutes from different things like the metal frame/legs of a canvas folding chair (stool, really) and a plastic broom and dustpan. Actually, he made one out of a regular ol' plastic straw and it had an especially unusual tone (kinda buzzing, but closer to a flute than a kazoo...but just a little bit of kazoo in its sound, maybe?). It was billed as a kid-friendly event and there were a lot of kids there and they were playing it up for the kids a bit. Okay, and drumroll!...I finished putting the modules into the case I just replaced the power supply in and was able to test and so far no issues! All the modules seem to power on and it didn't blow up and the few I wired up to test made sound so it's looking like a success! I have the case I already had...but potentially better! (I really should find a way to test it in a place where I know it had failure issues. Obviously the old Hi-Tone small room is out of the question as they're in a different building now and one that didn't give me that issue. The Lamplighter recently had someone redo their wiring so they may have fixed the electrical issues that caused it anyway. The only place left is the Print Shop, so would I be able to make my way in there to do a quick test?)