Artistic Virtuoso Gifts

'He's the bluesman's bluesman.'

"Here's another one written in E minor and in case you haven't guessed by now, it's the only chord I know."

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

Artist and Musician

"Eventually the instrument becomes an extension of your body."

"Viola player coming through!"

Violin Player

"Next, I'd like to play 'Guantanamera.'"

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

"You have to practice because if the Devil challenges you to a fiddle contest and wins, he gets your soul."

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

War Heros Variety Night (playing a tune on his medals).

'I'm a voice over artist.'

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

Trying cellos, too big!

What your guitar says about you.

Leonard Cohen

Hacksaw Violin.

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

Air Sitar.

Barbara Streisand

"Is this speech pie-in-the-sky nonsense or aspirational?"

Two men creating themselves with a pencil and paintbrush.

"It took years of vocal training, but I now have a vocal range from squeaky right down to tenor..."

'And now, for your musical entertainment!'

Recording Studio

"If you were truly blessed by genius, it wouldn't end there, believe you me!"

ACCOUNTANT-IN-RESIDENCE: "John, we're going to have to cut back on the cadmiums."

Pianist takes his bow whilst the singer carries on singing.

Man winding down a scroll of a musical score.

The Conductor

A Victorian lion chair is given a tail.

"I was kind of hoping for 'new voices' who'd also sung before."

Sarah Vaughan