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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-07-03 20:41
What's better than a Lamp? A smashed-flat wall decoration. Just got Taylor Music's "Trail's End" May 2001 Catalogue. Page 61 is dedicated to their "Down Home Sale". For $33 Dollars you can have a Clarinet, Trombone, Flute or Cornet. And I quote: "These are genuine instruments that have been flattened by a 120 ton press. Many pieces break away and are individually soldered back. Each instrument is cleaned, wrire brushed & lacquered......Flat Finales make a unique one-of-a-kind wall decoration."
Take's all kinds!
Bob A
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Author: ~jerry
Date: 2001-07-03 23:14
Look at what I might have missed if I hadn't taken up the clarinet last year.........MAN!
~ jerry
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Author: Ashley
Date: 2001-07-04 01:32
hmm, i can understand how they could smash a trombone, flute, or cornet, but if you crushed a clarinet..wouldnt the wood or plastic break apart/shatter/splinter?
Unless of course its a metal clarinet..hmm..intriguing...
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Author: David
Date: 2001-07-04 03:41
I'll stick with the lamps, although a clarinet only a millimeter thick in diameter does sound quite intriguing, I promise. (If only they could be played that way.)
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2001-07-05 13:35
Using a 120-ton press to flatten an instrument is overkill. It's easier to just pull out some.
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Author: David
Date: 2001-07-05 15:10
Entirely too punnish for my taste, Don. But still, what would be the purpose of having a flattened instrument? To hang it on your wall for display? Don't take me wrong, I'd get one if it were offered, but still, who comes up with weird ideas like that?
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Author: Joseph O'Kelly
Date: 2001-07-05 18:00
IMHO, these are a tremendous waste.
They are taking the time to crush the instrument, solder on parts, claean and relacqer it. If they skiped the crushing part they could just as well restore the instrument and put a refurbished instrument into the hands of a child willing to learn.
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Author: Bob Curtis
Date: 2001-07-05 21:46
Oh, come on, guys and gals! Haven't you recognized "art for art's sake" in this??? That is why so much of our tax dollars to the National Foundation for the Arts anyway, so some nut can show just how stupid he/she is!!
Bob Curtis
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Author: David
Date: 2001-07-06 03:13
Well, excuse me for considering music an art form!!
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