That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 12, 2020

Axel (not the Axel) took advantage when everyone was locked inside to practice his licks without being shouted at to stop.

Carlo hoped the people would pay attention to his music and not the mismatching stockings.

For some unknown reason Guido’s right leg never took to tanning.

The first recorded case of a guy that put the wrong socks on.

(I know, I know. He has another pair just like it)

When the gang leader told Luigi to grab some loot from the music store he worked at, this is what he showed up with. Luigi isn’t in the gang anymore.

busking for the tourists with this pandemic crap goin’ on just ain’t payin’ the bills…

This is why they invented pants!

“Hey, you’re out of tune”

“Why don’t you try tuning this thing”

Weird Al’s great, great, great, grandfather getting ready to do a little tune.

The court jester trying to branch out into acoustic guitar.

You know I’m gay ‘cause I got 2 feathers in my cap!

“’If I were King of Florence! Not Queen. Not Duke. Not Prince.”

When it came to tuning, he had it pegged.

“Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona” ?

Mark Knopfler’s ancestor

What ho, what ho ? What hose are those ?/ The one is white, the other, rose../though at his feet the Arno flows/ and, string by string, his guitar grows / What will he play ? God only knows…

“Jimmy Page’s great , great, great, grandfather, Adolphus Page”

He looks like Weird Al without glasses.

Adolpho liked to feel the breeze blowing across his privates. It gave him a great sense of freedom.

If girls can wear mini-skirts, so can I!

Has Romeo moved to Venice?

Chuy didn’t know what neighborhood he was in so he wore both gang colors.

Oh solo mio….

“I have both a capo and a plectrum, and, if I have to, I’ll use ’em!”

What in the world is that instrument? and how would one ever keep it in tune?

“On the stage, a man I know—he plays the troubadour /His voice is cracked and bitter with regret / And every sorry song he sings is named after a different girl / His wife of many years, she keeps him yet”

Jimmy Page’s many-greats-grandfather starts to wonder if maybe two necks would work better on his lute.

“I wonder if it would sound better if I played left-handed?”

An awful lot of tuning knobs on that guitar.

How many strings on that MF?

“It was sweet of two of my friends serving in the Sudanese British Relief Expedition to send me feathers for my hat. I guess my other two friends are still too angry that I ran out on them to send me anything.”

(Anybody spot the reference to the film, The Four Feathers"? No? Well, this wouldn’t have been all that funny even if you had I guess.)

Having flunked his navigation exam, Lothario was reduced to cruising the canals as a jongleur rather than a gondolier.

Unfortunately, he didn’t play or sing any better than he steered a gondola.

Eventually, he gave up and went into politics.

On a desert island, a magic your’s and my land, everyday’s a holiday with you…

Lute player in front of a Venetian palazzo or A Venetian mandolin player: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werner_Lautenist.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

https://www.askart.com/artist/Carl_Frederich_Heinrich_Werner/11080176/Carl_Frederich_Heinrich_Werner.aspx 

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz85142.html 

both have info about this artist (again, Chrome can translate as necessary and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2447 (May 11, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Once again: No more ‘Stairway to Heaven’! Any other requests?”

“Purple Haze…….”

“Smoke On The Water” :)

Georgio miscalculated how long it would take him to tune up. Now he wasn’t going to have time to finish Inna Godda Davita before the tide came in.

Why is ‘pants’ plural? See https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7186/why-is-the-word-pants-plural/7204#7204

Machiavelli was book smart but not to brainy when it came to matching leggings.

Ha, ha, ha, Roger McGuinn. I’ve got 24 strings!

Free Bird!

There once was a player named Lute/who regarded his outfit as ‘cute’/but his tights were mismatched/his hat was askance/Methinks Lute needs a suit that’s a Zoot!!