Kevin Winn is a professional potter, ceramics teacher, and artist in Salt Lake City, Utah. Here’s the work of art he named Death of Music. He created the  skeleton out of old piano keys and other derelict pieces of musical instruments.

The skeleton’s lair is an antique, sin-ugly bass violin case.  It was found in the storage shed when Kevin and Valerie bought their house in SLC’s old Sugar House neighborhood.

Valerie’s sister is my writer friend Bev Hale.  I met the creepy bass violin case a couple of summers ago, when Bev and I went and stayed with Valerie and Kevin for a few days after the World Science Fiction Convention in Denver.   I wrote the bass violin case into a dark western fantasy short story.   The short story became the first chapter of a novel that I’m revising now.   I think Death of Music will make a guest appearance in the book’s climax when demons assail Salt Lake City in 1880!