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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
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- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
- Date: 23 Jan 93 13:27:43
- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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- In-reply-to: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu's message of Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:09:48 GMT
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- In article <C1As0D.EJ6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
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- martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
-
- >Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam) writes:
- > No it isn't. You're thinking of the crumhorn.
-
- >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.
-
- Well, I urge em to leave those boring melodious instruments behind
- entirely and try the rackett,
-
- technically, that's "raise a rackett"
-
- the vielle a roue or hurdy-gurdy,
-
- I've got to say I like the hurdy-gurdy a lot. If I weren't terminally
- instrumentally-challenged I'd get one.
-
- 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.)
-
- The *what*?
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