VL-IV [pg 62] Zoyd's a piano player - I thought he was a guitarist

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 27, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> I was flipping thru, reading ahead, and he says somewhere later in the
> book that he's a piano player.

"Keyboard player" is closer to the mark:

	. . . Zoyd was presented with a thick tattered fake book full of
	Hawaiian tunes, and on the lounge synthesizer, a Japanese
	make he'd heard of but never played, he found a ukulele option
	that would provide up to three orchestral sections of eight ukes*
	each. It would take several flights across the Pacific Ocean and
	back before Zoyd felt easy with this by no means user-friendly
	instrument. The critter liked to drift off pitch on him, or worse,
	into that shrillness that sours the stomach, curtails seduction,
	poisons the careful ambience. Nothing he could find in the
	dash-one under the seat ever corrected what he more and
	more took to be conscious decisions by the machine.

>
> What made me think he was a guitarist is that he said he knew all the
> guitar breaks from "Love is Strange"

. . . not to mention the association of "surf music" with guitars.

> Of course this means my entire interpretation was wrong.  But let's
> move on anyway.

"Oh, you meant VIOLENCE on Television.

Nevermind. . ."

* Remember how this theme of "orchestral sections of eight ukes" gets  
played up in AtD? I play a little [very little] guitar at a bluegrass  
get-together every Wednesday night and one of my mates brings in  
ukuleles of various sizes. He attests to the presence of ukulele  
orchestras in the UK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gp7B8WC4Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE&feature=related

. . .now, where's that Chopin Nocturne arrangement, anyway?