And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Georges de La Tour - Le Vielleur aveugle (au ruban), 1620-30.
What is he holding?
ReplyDeleteA Hurdy-Gurdy
DeleteYes, a Hurdy Gurdy. Here is what one sounds like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iieaUv3kfBQ
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the other instrument played in that video, using the bow, is a Nyckelharpa, which was quite popular in Scandinavia in past centuries.
ReplyDeleteI first thought that it was a Native American baby backboard.
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