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Music fills a house in a hundred small ways: scales drifting from the piano after school, a guitar leaning by the couch, a record spinning on a slow Sunday, a voice warming up in the shower before a concert. This piece gives all of that a place on the wall, with the word "Music" written in a sweeping script that rises from a long lead-in stroke and runs letter to letter like a phrase played legato. Each sign is handcrafted and hand-cut from a single thin sheet, then finished in hammered black or hammered silver with a fine, grainy texture. It measures 22 inches wide by 5 inches tall and weighs about a pound, a long, slim shape that sits well above a piano, a desk or a row of instrument hooks. Hang it in a music room or practice space, a home recording studio, a choir or band classroom, or a living room where the instruments live out in the open. A thoughtful gift for a piano teacher, a band director, a student heading to music school, or anyone who always has a song going.