Sunday for Toads: love letters between whom? What?

Violone or "great bass viol," painting by Sir Peter Lely,

Dutch-born English Baroque-era painter, circa 1640.
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I’ve loved you since I first laid eyes

on your beautiful curves,

your magnificent size.

You’re everything I’ve ever dreamed

of seeing.

I’d love to stroke your satiny wood,

your long, strong throat

and oh, your strings:

I want to pluck thee

'til you sing,

ecstatically.

But I am small

and I am weak.

I am shy

and I am meek,

and so, to you, I dare not speak.

from your secret admirer, WCF

At the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kerry has challenged us to write a love letter from one inanimate object to another. The objects need not be married, engaged, or even from the same group of objects.

Jim Creeggan of the
Barenaked Ladies
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I have chosen two, who do the same kind of work, although in much different ways. The letter above is from a flute to a double bass.

Charlie Mingus
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I thought of this because my father played double bass in dance bands in the 1940s. Here are two bassists much better known than my dear  old dad.