portrait-photo

The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

books0977: The blind guitarist. Vintage photograph. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” — Helen Keller 

books0977:

The blind guitarist. Vintage photograph.

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” — Helen Keller 

skrjabinesque:

fyeahmusicaclassica:

Some Classical people and their pets

(Rachmaninoff, Menotti, Shostakovich, Ravel, Glenn Gould, Grieg, Busoni and Callas)

Lol@ the picture of Tchaikovsky in the top left of the photograph of Rachmaninoff. 

(via leadingtone)

denise-puchol: two men and a cello ambrotype c.1860

denise-puchol:

two men and a cello

ambrotype c.1860

(Source: denisebefore, via yourfutureleader)