Esther's photos with the keyword: lamp

The Saturday Self-Challenge: Lamps TSSC20210320 121652

The Saturday Self-Challenge: take a shot of one of your favorite mementos and tell us the story as to why it got to be that way. This is a segment of a lamp with a clarinet as its base. A number of years ago, I was in charge of finding a farewell gift for our band conductor of many years. He was a clarinetist, so I thought that he might like a clarinet lamp. I found some old metal clarinets that were up for bid on eBay and placed bids on them, expecting to only win one auction. I won both auctions. I made a lamp for him and one for me. I like this clarinet lamp because it reminds me of good times playing under his baton, it was something that I made (with help from my husband after I discovered that the design of the base had to be changed to prevent the lamp from tipping over) and it is a remnant of a time before plastic when cheaper instruments for students or outdoor playing were made out of metal, rather than wood. Here's a photograph of the lamp in its entirety. www.ipernity.com/doc/esther/41760442 . The clarinet is silver colored, but the camera color temperature meter was fooled by the indoor lighting and it appears to have a golden color in the latest photograph. I liked the color shift, so I did not correct it. TSSCIMG 3973

The Sunday Challenge: Lampshades TSC20200213 093002

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Silver Clarinet Lamp Metallic silver clarinets had their heyday in the early to mid-twentieth century before the advent of plastic. The best silver clarinets could compete favorably with their wooden brethren, but the majority of silver clarinets were manufactured for outdoor or student use and were of lesser quality. The cost to overhaul these old beauties far exceeds their value as musical instruments, so many of them are finding new life as lamps. I acquired this clarinet for a song on eBay. I bought a lamp base on the web, a lamp kit at the local big box hardware store, a lamp shade at a lighting store and voila! TSCRepurpose Collage 2

Light pull. A mechanical pull to a floor lamp. The Sunday Challenge: Home machinery TSCMachineryIMG 1037

Nice is the fifth most populated city in France with almost 350,000 inhabitants. It became part of France in 1860, after having been ruled by Italy. It is located on the Côte d'Azur and boasts a Mediterranean climate. AIMG_2910

Florence, Italy AIMG_3016

Florence, Italy AIMG_3103

A wonderfully ornate street light in Rome that illustrates the adage: If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. AIMG_2268

Dock at Weirs Beach, New Hampshire IMG_4166