[Agnes Heep]

What is it about plucked strings that's so appealing?

[Concerto in D]

At the risk of sounding maudlin (which I'm not), perhaps it's the similarity to the tugging of one's heartstrings for things gone and for things done in solitude: Mom's reading "Somebody's Mother"; Dad's reading one of the Psalms or singing opera TOTALLY off-key; watching a perfect sunrise; or as one songwriter put it: The upward glancing of the eye when none but God is near.