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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2008/03

From: "Jim Katz" <jimkatz@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: An oboe is not a bassoon!
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:53:57 -0400

It gets worse - the cabin crew took the bassoon/oboe and stowed it in the
coat closet in the front of the plane. As we arrived, the purser came
back and announced that I could pick up my electric guitar on the way out.

Jim

> If it were anyone else telling that story, I wouldn't believe them!
>
> -David Crispin
>

>> 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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