Small (and big) children draw guitars and other musical impressions

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A new episode of "Preschool class drawing stringed and wind instruments". All the little artists are 5 or 6 years old. I love the different approaches of the children, some of them rather precise in their drawings, some of them letting their fantasy run wild:

Maya

Archtop.

Jule

Flattop? Archtop?.

Dilara

Big archtop, little teacher.

Koudai

Small guitar, big guitar, saxophone, guitar.

Summer

Mr. Moser and his Martin flattop. (Mr. Moser is trainee at our school. We played some blues on guitars and wind instruments while the children were drawing.)

Paul

Flattop.

Finn

Alto saxophone.

Elisabeth

Fretboard, alto.

Damla

Alto saxophone.

Jaiden

Archtop and teacher.

Mina

Guitar music.

Nella

Mr. Moser and his flattop.

Leyla

Teacher, flattop, alto.

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Today we danced again in third grade. First we had a look at several short videos (Bill Bailey, Fred Astaire, Cab Calloway and such), then did some basic tap dance (toe, heel, brush) and freestyle at the end. Here is what my 8 and 9 years old girls and boys were drawing afterwards:

THE STICK FIGURE DANCE ROUTINE!

Lucy

Matz

Willi

Lily

Inas

Lenny

Tamika

Aarav

Berat Can

Ela

Anton

Marita

Berat

Maram

Tom

Tanja

Merlin

Ruben

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Osman, 9

Rehearsing with friends under pandemic conditions.

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Orla, 9

Lily, Orla and Lale bust some moves.

("Am I not dancing well?" - "Yes, Orla!" - "That's fun! Yeah!")

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Not a drawing of a guitar, but No. 2 reminds me of a story that really happened about 50 years ago to a befriended rock band. They had a gig in some club in Munich and were looking foreward to the A&R man of some record company. The drummer thought that everything had to look perfect and adjusted the tuning machines of the guitarists 12string just the way shown on the picture above. When the guitarist had strummed the first chord, the A&R man stood up and left the club.

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Several illustrations by Hermann Stockmann (1867 - 1938) for the book "Kulturbilder aus Alt-München (Cultural images from old Munich)"; very small and "simple", very detailed:

Many of the forum members love working with wood and might appreciate some information about the man shown in the last drawing. This is master wood turner Jakob Sandtner, playing a cittern. Sandtner made wooden models of several Bavarian cities at different scales: Straubing, Landshut, Ingolstadt, Burghausen and Munich, the latter in the year 1570 at 1:616. Hartmann's pen drawing shows part of it on the left side of the picture. A photograph of the whole work of art is below.

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Stormy weather today, so we could not leave the school building during the breaks with our classes. In my third grade, I encouraged the pupils to draw someone sitting or lying on a meadow, watching the clouds and playing guitar, and we listened to "Nuages" (Django, Willie Nelson, Willie Jakob and Oscar Peterson versions). The only template was my very raw drawing of a man lying in the grass with a guitar in his hands. Again I am surprised by the creativity of these 10 years old artists.

Tiago stays close to the topic:

Osman is getting to the point:

Lia-Su prefers a guitar playing little blue monster:

So does Ida:

Freja chooses a different color for her monster:

Toni decides to draw herself:

Paul's drawing shows an upside down dog:

Malte's dog is outside in the storm:

Salim's dog and guitar are gone with the wind:

The guitar player in Arel's picture is gone away:

Pekka's drawing really shows the vastness of the sky:

Julius will always have your back:

And Pieter sees it from his own perspective:

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Another day, another third grade, another Django tune: "Manoir de mes rêves". I played it for the class, then we listened to versions by Django, Angelo Debarre and Tchavolo Schmitt, while the children made their drawings.

Tanja and her friends have different dreams:

Willi's dream is growing:

Marita just loves her keyboard:

Ruben remembered that in one video the musicians were smoking while playing:

So did Aarav:

Maram even remembered the fastening of the strings on my old french guitar:

While Anton remembered Django's brother ("Bruder" in german):

And Tamika said "I'd rather do handicrafts":

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Latecomer; Lily's castle: