Klarinet Archive - Posting 001188.txt from 2000/05

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: wrong instrument
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:24:47 -0400

Bill Hausman:

This thread has endless possibilities. Is it required that trombone
players have perfect pitch? How else would they know where to stop
when playing a scale?

I also have been told by unimpeachable sources that Wildlife Biologists
in Africa carry trombones as standard equipment in Kenya when inventorying
populations of elephants. Periodically they sound several blasts which
apparently simulate the sound of the female elephant in heat as it were.
When these clarion tones reach out across the Serengeti Plains they
attract male suitors in droves. The Biologists also point out its best
to leave the area shortly thereafter as a bull elephant when arriving
on scene may be in a bit of a snit when he finds his inamorata is a
student model Holton without even an F attachment. (Uh oh, Charlie,
drop the trombone and run!)

Don Longacre

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