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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2004/06
From: <pgtice@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quotes and staples
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:13:43 -0400
Where have you been Rhondda May, oh breath of fresh air? I've missed you!
Grace
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhondda May" <rmay@-----.com>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Quotes and staples
> To the cork. Because when I was just a li'l sprout oboer I was taught
> to do that and to sort of make the last tie slide under the cork, so
> that reeds wouldn't come unwound. I think I just never changed once I
> got beyond the stage when that was likely to happen. But on English
> horn and oboe d'amore reeds, just past the cane, and lots of extra
> rounds like a bassoonist (but, yes, I'm aware, a poor, poor
> imitation!;))
>
> It does look better, and since I buy my nylon thread by the huge
> spoolful from the wholesalers up in Sham Shui Po (district of Hong Kong
> for all fabric, notions, boas, etc; mongrel computers and software legal
> and not, and live snakes for soup in December - my former students
> assure me it....wait for it... tastes kind of like chicken), I will be
> bequeathing the leftovers to my former students in my will....
>
> Doublereeders, thanks for anything political, cultural, intellectual
> that you post here. I'm in danger of beginning to think that nobody in
> the US thinks there's anything wrong with egregiously violating the
> Geneva conventions.....
>
> Breathe in, breathe out, grow tall-
> rhondda
>
> hlmuller@-----.com wrote:
> >
> > > Now for something more topically mundane, who wraps their staples to
> > >the cork and who stops below the cane- and does it matter other than
> > >looks or frugality?
> >
> > To the cork; for looks. Could have saved a couple spools of thread over
> > the years.
> >
> > HM
> >
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