A Guitar in Townsend, Massachusetts - Weathervane Wednesday

Today's weathervane was photographed in Townsend, Massachusetts.

 This unusual weathervane is located above a barn attached to a house in Townsend, Massachusetts.  I love the details on the guitar vane - the strings, pegs, fretboard, and the hole through the body where the background sky is visible.  But I also love that the finial above the guitar shaped vane is a clef, and that there are musical notes on a staff holding up the cardinal point letters!  

There are trees behind this barn, which makes this dark metal weathervane nearly invisible until you catch a glimpse of it silhoutetted agains a bright blue sky.  We have been driving through Townsend, Massachusetts for over 35 years since it is on our route between our house in New Hampshire and my mother's home in central Massachusetts, but this spring was the first time we have stopped to photograph this weathervane.  Only when looking through the telephoto lens or when looking at the photograph on a computer screen did we see the little, fun details on this weathervane.  

I don't know the history of this building, or if there is a story to this guitar weathervane.  Did a musician live here?  Was there a luthier in residence, with a workshop in the barn? 

Townsend, Massachusetts has several fun weathervanes besides this guitar. If you ever drive through look for the bat weathervane above the Spaulding School, or the owl weathervane over the old library building, the Hart Free Library. See the links below. 

This view of the weathervane shows the great patina on the old metal.

For the truly curious:

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The Spaulding School bat weathervane in Townsend, Massachusetts:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/10/weathervane-wednesday-bats-in-belfry.html  

The Hart Free Library building owl weathervane in Townsend, Massachusett:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/05/weathervane-wednesday-wise-library-owl.html    

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A Guitar in Townsend, Massachusetts - Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 26, 2023, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-guitar-in-townsend-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]).