Klarinet Archive - Posting 000371.txt from 1998/05

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:Soprano Saxophone
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 13:11:49 -0400

On 7 May 1998, Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com> wrote:
>At 10:04 PM 5/6/98 -0500, Carl Schexnayder wrote:
>...Now, if you want to
>>deride the banjo or the accordian, or bagpipes, or juice harp, I might be
>>willing to hear what you have to say!!
>>
>OK. The other day I noted that I had 4 items to be repaired loaded in my
>route truck and not ONE of them was a musical instrument: a brass
>mouthpiece puller, a bass guitar, a sousaphone, and an accordian! :-)

I heard a wonderful piece on NPR a month or so ago, about some folks who did a
survey and some statistical analysis of what people loved and hated about music.
They looked at style, instrumentation, genre -- a whole host of characteristics.

Then they used their results to produce an "America's favorite" composite song
and an "America's least favorite" composite song. The "least favorite" was a
very special record: it was 6 1/2 minutes long, backed by an ensemble of harp,
bagpipe and accordian, and featured a screetchy soprano singing country/western
lyrics in operatic style. It was wonderfully awful.

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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