Klarinet Archive - Posting 000758.txt from 2001/11

From: The Guy on the Couch <jnohe@-----.Edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Interesting facts (?)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 04:59:08 -0500

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Roger Shilcock wrote:

>
> Tubes of grease get into such *embarrassing* places, I find.
> Roger S.
>
>

I speak with no exaggeration whatsoever when I recall distinctly seeing my
band director 'repair' a trumpet during class in the eighth grade.
Somehow, a tube of cork grease had gotten into one of the valves! The
student said the cork grease was in his case because he bought it for his
sister and forgot to give it to her...the only rational way we figured it
could have gotten INTO the trumpet was if it fell into the bell...but it
made its way all the way to the first valve????...

J. Shouryu Nohe
Grad Assistant, New Mexico State University
"I think we have a ghost in our house." - Kaycee Nicole
"I should probably be playing Buffet." - Steve Moore

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