Instrument acquisitions disorder, anyone? At last count here, it was a
concertina, a bodhran , mandolin, gee-tar, tenor sax, alto sax,
tambourine, three dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes), three pennywhistles, a
bagpipe chanter, baby grand piano, Victorian pedal pump organ, and yes,
one banhu and one erhu. Can I play any of them in public? None of your
durn business. Fear is a clear instrument/galoot connection developing
here.
Wondering why my voice recognition software always parses "galoot" as
either "pollute" or "the loot ". You would think I mumble or something,
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: Neal Connor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kasper [mailto:dragonlist@i...]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 6:51 PM
> To: oldtools
> Cc: oldtools
> Subject: [oldtools] Re: hanging on by my fingertips
>
>
> On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 02:32 PM, Curiousart@a... wrote:
> > bill sez:
> >
> >> i play (in a very amateur fashion) saxophone, and have
> > always justified the continual pursuit and capture of vintage
> > saxophones in the wild (along with their spoor, mouthpieces and
> > ephemera) with "well, i need one for practicing at home and one for
> > practicing at work".
> >
> > Hooboy, as if you didn't have a problem before!
> >
> > For those who don't know, saxophonists are every bit as obsessively
> > geeky as
> > us galoots. They hang out on breaks endlessly discussing saxophone
> > minutia,
> > putting every non saxophonist in earshot into a deep sleep.
> They show
> > each
> > other publicity photos of famous jazz saxophonists while shouting
> > things like
> > "No, no, you idiot! Can't you see he's clearly using an Otto Link
> > mouthpiece?! *That's* how he gets his sound!" They even have the
> > equivilent
> > of obsessive sole lapping where they will spend hours
> flattening the
> > spot
> > where the reed contacts the metal mouthpiece on a piece of
> sandpaper
> > fixed to
> > plate glass.
> >
> > Welcome to the list, you poor bahstid......
>
> no, no, art, i'll be a poor bahstid in a few months, right?
> remember,
> i still don't have any stanley planes...lol.
>
> as for the instrument obsession, i've suffered from GAS (Gear
> Acquisition Syndrome) for the past five years, but recently
> have gotten
> it under control...really, i have. no, i mean it, ok? ok, well,
> mostly under control. ok, well, mostly just too busy, but given the
> opportunity i POUNCE....sorry, sorry, *whew*. trembling.
> must go home
> and search for a bonade tenor sax ligature on ebay...or
> decide if that
> buescher "new aristocrat" in silver is going to be my work alto...
>
> actually, when i was also buying and selling vintage trumpets
> and other
> brasswinds for a local shop (and to make a bit of money for my habit,
> er, my accumulative need) i ran into paddy odeen on the tpin
> list, when
> he was the original benge nut. does he still hang out here?
>
> rotc: anyone can tell me if there's an ohio tools site that
> shows the
> older block planes? i think i have one. pictures soon.
>
> bill
> santa cruz, ca
>
> just say you'll call back later when i can talk about it.
>
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