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Author: derf5585
Date: 2014-10-18 02:56
Mistaken report, Clemens Road: At 4:02 p.m. Oct 16, someone called police and said a there was a man in the woods with a shotgun. The shotgun turned out to be a clarinet being played by a New York man who was staying the area.
from
http://www.cleveland.com/westlake/index.ssf/2014/10/clarinet_mistaken_for_shotgun.html
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-10-19 19:29
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Flute players could get in trouble also.
Some of you are too young to know this is a reference to the spy film "Our Man Flint" with James Coburn, that itself was a parody of James Bond.
Stan in Orlando
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Post Edited (2014-10-19 19:32)
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Author: derf5585
Date: 2014-10-20 03:26
Our Mann Flute was the music in the beginning on Our Man Flint
Here is the youtube album cover with the flute fitted with a scope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Vbvy2uTI7T4
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-10-20 04:36
Excellent, somebody knows more about it than I do, thanks. I owned that album as a teenager (I bought Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Boots Randolph, and Floyd Cramer LP's when all my friends were buying Beatles and Led Zeppelin, LOL). But I never knew (or I'd forgotten) that Herbie Mann played for the movie.
Stan in Orlando
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Author: derf5585
Date: 2014-10-20 09:57
If you want to see more instruments turned into weapons watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NXbducqxAG0
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2014-10-20 17:48
I can't imagine how bad their tone was if it was confused with a shot gun blast.
:-)
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-10-20 20:35
Maybe our military needs to rethink whether their bands might be useful on the front lines, after all.
Stan in Orlando
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Author: BartHx
Date: 2014-10-20 22:33
If I remember correctly, it was either Shelly Berman or Bob Newhart who had a routine about a "skinny kid with a pipe" (Norman Rockwell) painting backdrops for George Washington's army to make it look like they had many more soldiers than they actually had. I wonder if he painted them carrying clarinets?
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-10-20 22:50
Maybe if you play clarinet in the woods in an area with nervous suspicious trigger-happy law enforcement and/or locals, you should consider a pink instrument. Or maybe that would cause other troubles. Are there pink shotguns?
Stan in Orlando
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Post Edited (2014-10-20 22:52)
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-10-21 13:12
As far as actual military band stories there is:
"Have you ever heard about the 'Thunder Road Incident'? Back during the Vietnam War, The 1st Infantry Division Band made national headlines when it marched for a mile down "Thunder Road" while playing The Colonel Bogey March. Thunder Road (VN Hyw 13) was under the control of the 9th North Vietnamese Army Regiment (located less than a mile away), and it was critical that the 1st Infantry Division regain control of it. Under orders of the 1st Infantry's commanding general, the band, marching down the road playing The Colonel Bogey March, confused the enemy, and caused them to withdraw from the area. They thought that since the band was playing, the 1ID had won a major battle, so they retreated in fear! The 1ID band completed a victorious combat mission without ever firing a shot!"
And in the Mexican American War, the 214th Army Band overran the enemy's artillery position and turned the artillery pieces against them, permanently winning an artillery honor. This can be seen as red piping around the rank and along side the gold stripes down the pants of the uniforms worn by the current Army Ground Forces Band.
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: BartHx
Date: 2014-10-21 23:50
MarlboroughMan: Thanks for the correction on my reference. It's been awhile.
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