And now for something Completely Different.

I agree with Rodney "it's been a dry white season for the last 2-3 months" so I am going to contribute something from the left flank. This thread asks for contributions that are interesting and possibly unusual, instruments, characters, visual stuff. If possible, keep it light-hearted.

Who is this guy and what is he looking at through the keyhole??








And what is this, girls and boys can play with it. (No Rodney, you are not allowed to answer!)




















And how do you get to live in a house like this (that is me in the doorway)!





All will be revealed in due course.

The first contribution is a fabulous piece of vintage (1968) Russian animation.

A guy builds this fabulous instrument, a glass harmonica that enlightens him. He travels to a town where the people are obsessed with money. A bureaucrat smashes the glass harmonica which leads to chaos and eventually to social reform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAOEzdWDYFA


Those who did not know straightaway must have guessed, the instruments above are glass harmonicas, they are real and serious instruments. Here is a piece, Tchaikowsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from the Nutcracker (1892). This instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQemvyyJ--g

What about the house...???