Instrument Intrigue Gifts

Violin

Trumpeter swan meets trombone swan.

Baby Playing Violin

Timpani.

A man at a cocktail party wears a nametag that reads "Trouble".

"Don't make me send in the bad cat."

"If I'd known you were not looking for experience I wouldn't have lied on my CV."

'What a day! Caught between a Wiki leak and a document dump.'

Timbre Wolf

"A Japanese company will deliver them to us for �6.75 a thousand."

'Our new assignment is to get Iran and North Korea to blow each other up.'

"This is not good at all!"

Boss, what if I told you I forgot to lock up last night and someone totally robbed us blind? I'd say "no problem," because of your contract. My contract? It allows me to auction off your less vital internal organs to recover any damages you cause me. You really should read the fine print before you sign the papers, minion. I did. But I wrote in finer print that all fine print is null and void. Only the ruling class can use fine print, minion.

"Oh, the usual - spreading pestilence and misery. You?"

Orchestra

Fingerprint Show

Emperor Trump and Sultan Erdogan

"It's a plant based solution."

I've spent all night diluting our negative reviews on Yelp. Really? Yeah. You know how you can usually tell when a business owner does that? They post "reviews" that don't have even a hint of negativity. Amateurs. Check out the negatives I include: "House of Java Cafe. I hate it because it's so perfect, it makes the rest of my day feel inadequate."

The Two Pipers: Man playing Flute Pipe.

Two men converse secretively

"Damned if they do and damned if they don't? This is BRILLIANT work, everybody! Why didn't we think of this before?"

"I met my wife on Tinder."

Look at what your verdict is doing to my complexion!

'You rang?'

UN agreements.

"When did we switch from magazines to musical instruments?"

How the little banjo boy became a drummer

Man and his translator stick out their tongues.

"Just tell us what we want to know, and you can sit in the comfortable chair."

"The U.S. should retaliate against the EU's Google fine and go after a dominant, European tech company... as soon as they have one."

On paper, all applicants were very impressive. . . but clearly some were more experienced than others!

Sight test with a violin.

In The Bastille

'I had a good share and tell, Ms. Gibbs, but my family made me sign a confidentiality agreement.'