Doublereed Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2008/03

From: "Jim Katz" <jimkatz@-----.ca>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: An oboe is not a bassoon!
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:18:29 -0400

This reminds me of the time I made a fake decal for the otherwise unmarked
bell of my bassoon labeling it as as an ACME OBOE to be sure I could take
it as carry on luggage on a flight. The airline's rule book allowed
oboes, but not bassoons!
Jim Katz
Montreal

,(snip) today the nation's most revered magazine published a short
> report on my activities with a pic of Noel Devos,bassoonist only my name
> was
> substituted for the French bassoonist and his bassoon identified as an
> oboe. (snip)
> harold emert
> Rio-Brazil

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