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Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2011-11-05 19:46
John,
'Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' applied to oboe service... I love it!
His chapter (long riff) on stuckedness is one of the most meaningful and useful lessons I've ever come across.
I paraphrase..."Every problem has a life of its own, and while you are toiling away and nothing seems to be changing, it is. The life of the problem is expending itself..."
It was certainly true even for my own stuck swab problem a few years ago. And keeping that lesson in mind as I toiled helped keep me sane through the 8 -12 hours it too me to remove the swab without hurting my oboe.
(I now possess a proper swab extractor and doing the fix with the wrong stuff also relates to another good lesson from 'ZEN".)
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-Craig
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Bobo |
2011-11-02 21:17 |
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Oboe Craig |
2011-11-02 22:46 |
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Bobo |
2011-11-03 13:14 |
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Oboe Craig |
2011-11-04 00:16 |
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Ian White |
2011-11-04 21:55 |
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Oboe Craig |
2011-11-04 23:42 |
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johnt |
2011-11-05 19:32 |
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Re: useful life of key oil new |
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Oboe Craig |
2011-11-05 19:46 |
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johnt |
2011-11-05 20:21 |
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Oboe Craig |
2011-11-05 21:14 |
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johnt |
2011-11-05 20:30 |
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