Klarinet Archive - Posting 000046.txt from 2000/06

From: "Marcia S. Bundi" <mbundi@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Fwd: elephant talk
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:22:36 -0400

I forwarded this to a trombone playing friend. Perhaps I *don't* really
want to know how these guys think!

Marcia
Great Falls, MT

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Subject: Fwd: elephant talk
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:06:47 -0600

>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: elephant talk
>
>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.
>
>Phil:
>
>I know from personal experience that if you put a trumpet mouthpiece
into
>the slide receiver of a trombone bell and blow really, really, really
hard,
>the sound approximates that of an elephant -- male or female I know not
>which. This goes over big in Holiday Inns where businessmen have come
into
>the lounge talk over a deal. For added effect, kneel on the female
singer's
>stool, pull off one arm of your suitcoat and swing in back and forth in
>front of your nose while blowing.
>
>If that doesn't work, try doing it in Morris Albert's "Feelings."
>
>Dave Molter ... passin' on my accumulated knowledge to the next
generation
>of lounge bands.
>
>

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