Wading Into the Deep
Photo by Jason Squire I love this photo of my tuba lantern caught cattywampus, swinging wayyy off to the side. This photo shoot was many...
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Is There a Finish Line?
Someone once told me that Handel wrote the Messiah in under four weeks. This is something I console myself with anytime I’m under...
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Phina Pipia
- Nov 25, 2021
- 2 min
The Thing I Thought I Couldn't Do
My sister learned to read music before she learned to read books, and for a lot of years, she was the one who could sit down at the piano...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Today Today… In LA.
Do you ever find yourself yearning for a challenge? Wanting to push yourself out of your own comfort zone… to see what will happen?...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 12, 2021
- 1 min
Tuba Lantern
Wouldn’t it bee cool if a lantern hung from your tuba bell, and lit your way in the dark? This week I started making this happen. Tuba...
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Phina Pipia
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Pooping Art & the Scaffolding of Dreams
Eddie Izzard says in his autobiography that he plans career moves and creative projects by thinking of the end result, and then working...
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Phina Pipia
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
Circle of Sound
This week I played for people. Real people. In-the-flesh, living-breathing people who sat and listened and laughed and clapped. Some...
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Phina Pipia
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
The long road home… and stepping back into my own shoes
This week was a travel week, in more ways than one. I moved out of the beautiful outpost where I spent the past 10 months. … sneaking...
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Phina Pipia
- May 9, 2021
- 2 min
On the cusp of live... and packing the AMAZING SUITCASE.
They say that if you have unresolved issues, they can create an emotional weight that becomes “baggage”. But I like to think that, on the...
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
The Bird of Paradise Approach to Music
My sister says she always thought the bird of paradise flower symbolized a bird in flight, flying up and away from the leaves of the...
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 23, 2021
- 2 min
Chance Encounters Over the Airwaves
A sketch of some radio prop options from Ha Ha Da Vinci In Ha Ha Da Vinci, the only character you ever see is Luca Pacioli. He was...
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 17, 2021
- 1 min
Floor Piano + Sousaphone
I’ve recently been playing these two instruments together. It’s not easy, and at first I found the whole endeavor incredibly frustrating....
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Phina Pipia
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
What the Experts Had to Say About a Blue Thermos
The following is about the new production, Ha Ha Da Vinci, which I’ve been developing over the past year. When Luca (our protagonist),...
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