Now Entering… Liminal Space.
I’m at street-level, bouncing along behind my dad in a burley light bike trailer, just over a year old and New Zealand unfolding ahead...
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Phina Pipia
Apr 122 min read
Time Out
Photo by Jason Squire After a hugely delightful 2023 touring season of Ha Ha Ha Da Vinci, I decided to do something that I have never...
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Phina Pipia
Jan 21 min read
The Strega Nona Pasta Pot
Me, making a pasta pot - photo by my papa, Joey Pipia It’s January second, and I spent today in part figuring out how to instantly...
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Phina Pipia
Oct 15, 20232 min read
How to Make a Tuba Lantern
The tuba lantern ended up being the element of the Ha Ha Da Vinci show that encapsulates the incredible number of expert hands and amount...
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Phina Pipia
Aug 1, 20231 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci: Tour Day... Have Lost Count!!
This week, I found myself driving from Seattle to Montana along I-90 West with one E flat sousaphone in my trunk, and then - just 72...
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Phina Pipia
Jul 29, 20231 min read
Finally... At Celebration Barn!
Spent a magical week a Celebration Barn in Maine with the incredible Avner Eisenberg, workshopping Ha Ha Da Vinci and studying the...
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Phina Pipia
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 39: Beyond Tired
Just a wee article here at 12:23 am EDT on the note of complete exhaustion. I am 100% pooped, and so excited to climb into bed. The kind...
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Phina Pipia
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 38: All Grown Up
Opened the show in Montreal yesterday, and it is well into its 20s... 21 or 23? I need to go back and count. But it's finally out of the...
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Phina Pipia
Jun 4, 20231 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 33: A Tuba in Montreal!
When you walk down the street with a tuba in Montreal, people stop you and ask you to be in their brass bands. When you walk down the...
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Phina Pipia
Jun 4, 20232 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 25: Orlando!
A brief look at the Orlando stop on the 2023 Ha Ha Da Vinci tour
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Phina Pipia
May 6, 20233 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 9: In the Footsteps of...
I write this from the living room floor, surrounded by jumping sheep and shadow screens, half a tuba lantern and two deconstructed trees....
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Phina Pipia
May 6, 20231 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 8: Rest Required
After a pit stop in sleepy Abilene, Kansas (where we ate delicious breakfast burritos in the sun outside our motel, gazed at the world's...
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Phina Pipia
May 3, 20231 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 6: On the Road!
It's been a whirlwind few days - with ton of talking, laughing, driving, climbing, listening to stories, getting a tooth ache, recovering...
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Phina Pipia
Apr 29, 20231 min read
Ha Ha Da Vinci Tour Day 1: Lift Off!
What a day! Took off this morning for 4 months of Ha Ha Da Vinci shows across the US and Canada. The car is absolutely overflowing with...
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Phina Pipia
Apr 27, 20232 min read
On the Brink of Adventure
Photo Credit: Jason Squire So stoked to be writing this from my car as the sun sets, en route to some of my all-time favorite cities, and...
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Phina Pipia
Mar 1, 20231 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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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