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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 2004/06

From: PEM <oboe@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quotes and staples
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:34:14 -0400

I wrap to the cork. Just because I like the way it looks. The thread I
use is cheap (upholstery thread most of the time) so I'm not bothered
by the small amount of what some might think of as waste.

Rhondda ... we are a large bit 'o land here! Trust me when I say some
of us are horrified, disgusted, and horribly ashamed. Honest and true.

Patty

On Jun 9, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Rhondda May wrote:

> 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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