
Future You
TED Radio Hour
The Unknown Places I'll Take My Instrument
The instrument was custom made for my great grandfather. He was a well-known music and art critic in India in the early 20th century. My great grandfather had the foresight to protect this instrument at a time when my great grandmother was pawning off all their belongings, but that's another story. When I first heard the sound of this instrument, it haunted me. It felt like hearing a wanderer in the Himalayan fog. It feltlike hearing a voice from the past. This instrument is in my home today, but it doesn't actually belong to me.
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