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Piano - Romantic

Just reading the wonderful Alice in Sunderland, which includes this photograph of three English girls taken in the Summer of 1858 playing machetes, the Madeiran predecessors of ukuleles (legend has it that three Madeiran carpenters went to Hawaii in 1879 and started making tiny four stringed guitars). Anyway, the photograph is the first time anyone took a picture of a machete or a ukulele, and the girl on the left? Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice in Wonderland... BONUS: Get extra Music Thing updates at: http://twitter.com/MusicThing or in the sidebar at http://musicthing.blogspot.com

An amusing little incident coming from one of the AFL finals matches: for as the teams lined up for the pre-match formalities, someone managed to put to air a few bars of AC/DC instead of the national anthem. At very least, it relieved the mood; arguably, it was an improvement. Heh. At least it wasn’t bloody Khe [...]