Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2000/01

From: James Leonard Hobby <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: zoology
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:26:05 -0500

My cats cope with my clarinet playing quite well. Just lie there and watch
me. The oboe, however, sends them running.

BTW, in the SE US, our 'possums are truly ugly critters. Little short
legs, so the best they can manage is to waddle. (From this comes the
expression, "Playing 'possum". When they are threatened, they fall over on
their back, pretending to be dead, so their predator goes away.) And their
tails are hairless, possibly coming from abrasion, since they sleep hanging
by their tails from tree branches.

Jim

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>Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 01:03:40 +0100
>From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
>Subject: zoology
>
>With great interest I read what you wrote about the animal life in your
>house. My experiences with animals are slightly different from yours:
>
>We used to hav a dog. When I played clarinet it usually didn't mind, but
>when I only opened the soprano saxophone case it used to start whimsing: it
>wanted to get out. The poor animal never did if I played anothe saxophone,
>or a clarinet. Our cat however is much more sensitive: she simply blinks,
>and then sleeps on, when I open the case of a soprano or alto saxophone, but
>when I only look to the case containing my bass clarinet, she is off.

>BTW: is a possum the same, to the wombat related animal, as an opossum?

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