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- From: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle)
- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:09:48 GMT
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- martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
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- >Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:
- > No it isn't. You're thinking of the crumhorn.
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- >You mean to tell me you consider the pleasant bird-like tootling
- >recorder not a real instrument but the duck-like squacking of the
- >kazoo-with-a-gland-condition crumhorn to *be* A real instrument?
-
- >Next thing you'll be urging people to play the schaum.
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- Well, I urge em to leave those boring melodious instruments behind
- entirely and try the rackett, the vielle a roue or hurdy-gurdy,
- the bombarde, and the schryari. Though I must say, shawms are kinda cool.
-
- (I don't think a schryari [sp?] is actually known to have existed.
- I think Noah Greenberg reconstructed one from an illustration.)
-
- --
- "If you took the whole of Norway, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all
- the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world,
- and filled it with birds, you'd be wasting your time, because it looks
- very much as if someone has already done it."
- ....................................Douglas Adams, _Last Chance to See_
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- Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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