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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000054.txt from 2008/05
From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Miri Ben-Ari... Hip-Hop Violinist
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:16:28 -0400
My thought on why the bassoon (is) an oboe is that those who make the
mistake have not seen a bassoon, nor are they aware of what an oboe is. The
word just sounds exotic. Upon seeing a bassoon (decidedly exotic looking)
the assumption is that it must be that exotic-sounding thing, an oboe.
Nothing will dissuade them; not even Piotr and the wolf. I once had a
Philadelphia landlord argue with me that the bassoon was that big thing that
wrapped around you and went Oom Pah. I was denied the apartment.
Herb
On 5/8/08 7:40 AM, "Jon Julian" <jon@-----.com> wrote:
> 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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