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Author: tictactux ★2017 
Date:   2006-04-01 11:38 
 The day befoe yesterday I had a very strange dream. 
I was - as a parent - attending the semestral concert of our daughter's music school (elementary schools have no concept of bands here, that has been outsourced).  
 
Anyhow, it was an impressive lineup of instruments: 
Flutes, recorders, two alto saxes, a soprano sax, three bassoons, two oboes, a number of trumpets, cornets, trombones and the like (I only saw lots of shiny bells), pianos, accordions, guitars, strings in all variations, percussion - the works. 
But not a single clarinet. 
 
I wonder what that means. 
 
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Ben
  
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Author: larryb  
Date:   2006-04-01 12:23 
 you fear impotence 
 
(that's what you get for posting your dreams - you might as well put naked pictures of yourself on "Myspace") 
 
  
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Author: Alseg  
Date:   2006-04-01 13:20 
 What did you eat/drink  before retiring for the night? 
 
 
Former creator of CUSTOM  CLARINET TUNING BARRELS   by DR. ALLAN SEGAL 
           -Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-     
 
 
                     
                  
  
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Author: Bob Phillips  
Date:   2006-04-01 13:21 
 We need to campaign to get clarinet added to the endangered instruments list. 
 
Bob Phillips
  
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Author: tictactux ★2017 
Date:   2006-04-01 14:40 
 What did you eat/drink before retiring for the night? 
 
Bamboo sprouts.  
 
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Ben
  
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Author: Liquorice  
Date:   2006-04-01 21:07 
 You fear that your daughter's musical abilities will outshine your own.
  
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Author: tictactux ★2017 
Date:   2006-04-01 21:11 
 You fear that your daughter's musical abilities will outshine your own. 
 
Oh well, there's not much to outshine. And kids learn at an enviable pace. 
 
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Ben
  
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Author: GBK  
Date:   2006-04-01 21:52 
 tictactus wrote: 
 
> Anyhow, it was an impressive lineup of instruments: 
> Flutes, recorders, two alto saxes, a soprano sax, three bassoons,  
> two oboes, a number of trumpets, cornets, trombones and the like  
> (I only saw lots of shiny bells), pianos, accordions, guitars,  
> strings in all variations, percussion - the works. 
> But not a single clarinet. 
 
> I wonder what that means. 
 
 
You were probably seeing the future popularity of the clarinet   ...GBK
  
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Author: Synonymous Botch  
Date:   2006-04-02 14:28 
 When all the school kids are named either Jordan or Taylor, only the trumpet and flute will be represented in recital. 
 
Personally, I think you earn one "Get out of a boring family event" for every night you sit through yet another Harry Potter extravaganza...
  
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Author: David Peacham  
Date:   2006-04-02 21:59 
 It means that your music school has realised that our generation is over-supplied with clarinet players, and needs oboists and bassoonists. 
 
Send them to Burnham, we need them. 
 
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more. 
 
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt. 
  
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