But then I thought of something else, when you were talking about the spirit in the drum.

I’ve played piano for, and this is scary, forty years now, though I’m out of practice, and I just do it for myself. But I think playing it is where I learned to both go into trance and channel, because the music is definitely something coming *through* me, even more so than making art. And so then I wondered about the piano itself, that old beat-up Steinway I’ve been playing on for years, and which needs some repair now. Because every musician knows that instruments at the very least have personalities, if not spirits. So I tried approaching that piano in a shamanic way, in trance, and as a spirit ally; we are of course old friends, so that worked. It was very interesting. Moving, even. I thought I should share that.

Excellent post.