Homemade Music

Today, me and Dorothy went down to the next county to hear a little music. Every Friday around noon they have local bands to play in a little outside concert area. We had the pleasure of hearing the Flimflam Band, a family group that makes all their own instruments. Nothing is store-bought. One of the members plays on glasses with different amounts of colored water. Another had made a fiddle out of a heavy shoebox and fine wires. There are hubcaps and empty vegetable oil cans for percussion and a couple of guys whittled out piccolos and flutes. We heard everything from "She'll Be Coming Round the Mourtain" to "The William Tell Overture." It was pretty good considering. Dexter Flimwrithe is the band director and the man who started the whole thing up. He claims to be working on a piano out in his workshop. That I gotta see.

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