Klarinet Archive - Posting 000444.txt from 2002/04

From: Glen Shannon <gshannon@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] And you thought clarinets had problems ...
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:23:45 -0400

I noticed the "coffee" mug as well! :)

Maybe the oboe had a skiing accident and now has pins to keep itself together.

Glen

> > 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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