{"id":560,"date":"2002-05-29T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2002-05-29T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/05\/musique-du-coeur\/"},"modified":"2002-05-29T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2002-05-29T13:33:10","slug":"musique-du-coeur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/05\/musique-du-coeur\/","title":{"rendered":"musique du coeur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.rochester.rr.com\/dreilly1\/images\/C8DR_S.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"262\">I love music.  Obviously, or I wouldn&#8217;t torture myself playing piano as an accompanist.  Denis thought I should have a graduation gift for completing my masters degree &#8211; one that is as impractical as possible: a French horn.  The thought of having one of these beautiful instruments for my very own has consumed my imagination for weeks now.  Through the research I&#8217;ve done, I&#8217;ve learned all about different valve types, wraps, throat size, bell flare &#8211; even the fact that the different metals the horn can be made from (and therefore the color the horn is) makes a difference in how it sounds.  And when we go to NYC this weekend, we&#8217;re going to visit a store in NJ that specializes in brass instruments &#8211; they have hundreds of horns in stock (unlike the mere three that the local music store carries).  I&#8217;m going to be like a kid in a candy store, wanting to try them all.  My current favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmusical.com\/catalog\/detail.asp?Item_Number=8DR\">this one<\/a> (pictured above), but I&#8217;m willing to change my mind if I find something better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love music. Obviously, or I wouldn&#8217;t torture myself playing piano as an accompanist. Denis thought I should have a graduation gift for completing my masters degree &#8211; one that is as impractical as possible: a French horn. The thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}