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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2008/05

From: Jon Julian <jon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Miri Ben-Ari... Hip-Hop Violinist
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 10:40:54 -0400

I have often noticed and commented on that phenomenon - wryly.
(Really). The question that now comes to mind is, if they call a
bassoon an oboe, what do they call an oboe? (Be nice, now). It really
doesn't look like a clarinet (or maybe I've just been around all
these things too long) at any distance less than the 50-yard line to
the endzone. As I may have said somewhere before, I guess too many
people did not have Miss Obenschain for 3rd-grade general music in
1955 in Winston-Salem NC at Granville Elementary School in the
working-class not the fancy part of town - we all knew which was
which, and she wasn't even mean.

Jon Julian

On May 8, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Laine Bryce wrote:

> At the airport screening, I just say my bassoon is a "musical
> instrument". They usually get it.
>
> As all bassoonists know, so-called educated people (not at
> airports) continually refer to a bassoon as an oboe.
>
> Laine Bryce
>

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