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

Willie

Perry Bailly, Céline Fraipont: "Little Furry"

"Little Furry", "Petit poilu" in the french original, is a series of cartoonbooks I love to give to my preschool pupils to introduce them to reading books. The clear drawn and strict layouted but very imaginative stories are told without words, following the same dramaturgy in every epiosode: Little Furry wakes up, goes to the bathroom, has breakfast and leaves home, his mother or father kissing him goodbye. He never reaches school but always gets involved in all kinds of dangerous, funny, breathtaking affairs, finally arriving back home to be bathed, having dinner with his parents and going to bed with a souvenir of his adventure of the day in his hands - proving it has not been a product of Little Furry's imagination, but that everthing really has happened.

Willie

Elina, 6

Elina drew all the instruments she knew from our music lessons.

Her piece of art reminded me very much of Michael Praetorius' "Syntagma Musicum" (edited 1614 - 1619) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Praetorius with pictures like the following.

Willie

Lorena, 6

Lorena is standing in the door of our music room at school,

Lorena has entered the music room.

(What I particularly like is the ceiling lamp.)

Willie

Today I had only 4 pupils in my brass class, so I decided to give 10 minute "private lessons" for everybody. To prevent those not playing with me for the moment from fooling around I gave them the task to draw their cornets, with as many details as possible.

The artists all are 10 years old.

Robert

Johann

Julian

Larissa

billyshakes

They've all captured different aspects of the details. Play them Storro Limberger's "Sunny Side of the Street" from De Piotto's Gipsy Passion to give them inspiration! Many say Django was inspired first by Armstrong's playing. We need more brass playing!

Willie

Unknown Artist

You have to look closely: the person who has the world at her feet has a guitar (what else!).

The original picture is taken from here:

https://www.hawaiiansteel.com/arrangements/arrangements.php

Willie

And I didn't want to withhold this 1953 booklet front page from you:

Buco

She's like "I'm outta here, it's been six minutes and he's hopeless"

Willie

No wonder, the guy seems to play without the bar.

Willie

Only 3 pupils in my third grade brass workshop again today, the other children are on a class trip. I put out the Alphorn, played a little bit for them, and then let the pupils blow the horn. Those who did not play made drawings, like last time. They had a lot of fun both with playing and drawing.

The artists: Johann, Julian and Larissa (who also drew the different mouthpieces for alpine horn, cornet and tenor horn).