Klarinet Archive - Posting 000443.txt from 2002/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] And you thought clarinets had problems ...
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:17:31 -0400

> http://www.garyarmstrong.com/images/picturepage/pages/oboe%20pins.htm

The possibilities:

- This is first voodoo oboe.
- Someone had a really bad lesson and decided to give up the oboe in favor
of the French horn. After all, if you screw up the French horn, it's much
easier to turn it into an attractive indoor planter.
- This is an ad for the new Timex oboe: takes a lickin' and keeps on
tickin'.
- The repairman's apprentice heard he had to pin some cracks but let things
get away from him, thereby creating an exercise worthy of that Disney
cartoon involving the mouse, the brooms, and the pails of water.
- Someone's going to use their former oboe as combination message center and
reading lamp.

The attractive young lady in one of the other pictures ("Gary's first
bassoon lesson") is sitting next to a rather large and half-emptied bottle
of wine. She's holding a coffee cup. Coffee, my foot. Presumably she is
the teacher. Could Gary have been THAT awful that he's already driven the
poor woman to drink? I wonder what a beginning bassoon player sounds like.
But I'm not wondering too hard. I'll guess he's a few pages in the book
from being able to play the solos in "Hall of the Mountain King"....

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
http://www.kenwolman.com
"...perhaps forgiveness is a process more than an emotion, perhaps it's
meant to make us discover those other conditions within ourselves, love,
belief in love, to which forgiveness itself is incidental..."--C. K.
Williams, "Misgivings"

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