Klarinet Archive - Posting 000758.txt from 1998/02

From: "Scott Morrow" <sdm@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Ophicleide
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:43:40 -0500

Wonderful!!!
My compliments to the clef!
-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
DNA Synthesis Core Facility
Department of Biochemistry
The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21205
(410) 955-3631
-----Original Message-----
From: pharmacy <pharmacy@-----.com>
Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 11:35 PM
Subject: Ophicleide

>Here's the Official Ode to the Ophicleide (from Professor Cabbage)
>-Carol-
>
>
>
>The Ophicleide
>
>The Ophicleide, like mortal sin,
> Was fostered by the serpent.
>Its pitch was vague; its tone was din;
> Its timbre, rude and burpant.
>
>Composers, in a secret vote,
> Declared its sound non grata;
>And that's why Wagner never wrote
> An Ophicleide Sonata.
>
>Thus spurned, it soon became defunct,
> To gross neglect succumbing;
>A few were pawned, but most were junked
> Or used for indoor plumbing.
>
>And so this ill wind, badly blown,
> Has now completely vanished:
>I nominate the saxophone
> To be the next one banished.
>
>Farewell, offensive Ophicleide,
> Your epitaph is chiseled:
>"I died of ophicleidicide:
> I tried, alas, but fizzled!"
>
>
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