Photo by Robert Batey
Ringing Strings Bowed Psalteries  

handcrafted by Rick Long
Clinton, Tennessee
(865) 660-4026
psalteryman@gmail.com
2-16-2010

Got time to breathe, Got time for music!
Brisco Darling
Andy Griffith Show



Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
The Opera 1852



Music..... is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.
Marin Mersenne (1588-1648)
Harmonie universelle, 1636


The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)


Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1974)



Now lets try "Slimy River Bottom", and this time make it purdy!
Brisco Darling



Oh Paw, that one makes me cry.
Charlene Darling


Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden (1907-73)



Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Jules Combarieu (1859-1916)



Music is the universal language of mankind.
Christopher North (1785-1854)









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