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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000085.txt from 2008/05

From: mzeztee <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Miri Ben-Ari... Hip-Hop Violinist
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 10:39:19 -0400

Hey Jon,

I'll bet that they don't even have "general music" any more in Granville
Elementary School in W-S in 3rd grade !!!

Your Neighbor,

B

On 5/8/2008 10:40 AM, Jon Julian 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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