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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2008/03

From: "David Crispin / Crispin's Creations" <crispinscreations@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: An oboe is not a bassoon!
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:36:15 -0400

" immediately announcing that it was OK, because it was only a
> Clarinet, then let me through."

Too bad they didn't pat you down (frisk you). On a hectic and stressful day,
it can feel almost like a massage!

-David Crispin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Thiel" <dathiel@-----.au>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Re: An oboe is not a bassoon!

> Preparing to board a plane for Sweden several years ago, I was stopped at
> the entry security X-ray machine and asked in a loud voice if I could
> explain the clips of bullets, (which were in my oboe case and in the brief
> case which carried all of my personal things). Looking at the screen from
> a slanting angle, I could see the rows of reed staples ... which did look
> much like rows of bullets through the machine. Luckily, his supervisor
> heard the question, raced to the scene to view the screen, immediately
> announcing that it was OK, because it was only a Clarinet, then let me
> through. I didn't wait to correct him.
>
> Dennis, in Australia.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Jon Halvor Lund wrote:
>> I was told to go to a special luggage counter in an airport once to pick
>> up my skiing equipment. Well, that was a contrabassoon...
>>
>> another story: a couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by a man who
>> managed the estate of his father-in-law who had recently passed away.
>> Among the things were a bassoon that he wanted me to take a look at and
>> estimate a value - and another thing that he thought was a kind of wind
>> instrument, but wasn't really sure. That was a clarinet!! First time I
>> meet someone who knows what a bassoon is, but NOT what a clarinet is.
>>
>> Jon in Norway
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Jim Katz <jimkatz@-----.ca>
>> To: David Crispin / Crispin's Creations <crispinscreations@-----.net>
>> Cc: doublereed@-----.ca
>> Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2008 3:53:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DR-L] Re: An oboe is not a bassoon!
>>
>> 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
>>
>
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