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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-01-09 14:23
A great opera about a beautiful/desireable/loyal woman, hope the cl is also very good. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-01-09 21:53
Tosca ... always a pity they have a mattress for her to fall on, judiciously placed nails and spikes would be a better surface
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2005-01-09 23:23
DON'T have a car accident with your Tosca's in the boot...
I'm alive, they're not.
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Author: Wayne Thompson
Date: 2005-01-10 16:14
Ahhhhgg!
RAMman! Is this real? Did this happen to you? Did you tell this story already? My sympathies for the horns, and I'm glad you're OK.
WT
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-01-10 17:21
Yeah, RAM, what kind of car? Does boot mean the little plastic cover that goes over the convertible top? If so, was the top down and why were your instruments in the boot? If it was up, did you store them inside the little boot for more protection in the trunk? Man, what a bummer.
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Author: CJB
Date: 2005-01-10 17:27
Brenda
Here in the UK we call what you think of as the trunk the boot. Just another of the little differences in our language
RAMman - glad to hear you're ok even if the clarinets suffered
Post Edited (2005-01-10 17:28)
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2005-01-10 18:05
Yes, my lovely Toscas died when I'd only had them a few weeks.
They were in the 'trunk' of my Ford Ka (not sure if that's a model you have in the US, I think not...) which slid off the road and flipped over, landing on it's rear end and reducing the boot (trunk) to the width of a credit card. The Buffet case did a good job, but a safe wouldn't have protected them from that. My laptop also died, the whole incident has been rather expensive!
The repair man laughed at me...no way were they going to be repaired...so I then had an interesting dispute between my instrument insurers and my car insurers as to who was going to pay. The car insurers won.
The problem now, is the relative rareity of the Tosca in the UK. Of those I have tried, none come close to the pair that I had, and 90% of what we seem to have in this country is Greenline.
Luckily, I kept my R13s...and am appreciating them more than I was before I bought the Toscas.
I, by the way, escaped with a badly cut hand and concussion. The police officers who attended said I should be dead...so I'm thankful for that.
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Author: msloss
Date: 2005-01-10 18:18
That's one of the better audition excuses I've heard!
Have you considered Chunneling over to gay Paris to pick out a set directly from Buffet? I can put you in touch with a very good dealer in Paris to work it out.
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2005-01-10 18:23
I have considered it msloss...I'm keeping all options open.
I've been to the Buffet factory before, but thanks for that.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-01-10 19:03
Wow. What a story. When I was a senior in high school my 59 Volvo PV544 cought fire while on my way home from band rehearsal. It exploded a mere couple of minutes after I grabbed my books and instrument out of the trunk. I barely escaped. Unfortuneately, one of my fellow clarinetists had left her sweater in the car. It was toast. There was nothing left of the car but 3 slightly burned tires. It crumpled like aluminum foil. Also, it was uninsured and I still owed a bit of a note on it. Remember, in 1968 it was less than a 10 year old car. I really liked that car. Peavy, we called him. Sad.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2005-01-10 21:59
RAMman and Brenda,
Dreadful stories. But am glad that you are safe.
Lucy Lee Jang
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