Posted on 05/14/2018 3:53:18 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
On the afternoon of April 5, after giving three lessons at his alma mater, Kenton Ridge High School, 22-year-old Eric Barga drove to Covenant Presbyterian Church for practices of the bell choir and arrived half an hour early, at about 6 p.m. Although the temperature was in the mid-50s, after years spent in claustrophobic practice rooms while working toward his degree from the exclusive New England Conservatory in Boston, Barga pulled the custom-made Fox 610 red maple bassoon out of its case, sat on the trunk of his car in the refreshing air and began playing scales.
There was a nice orange sky in the background, he recalled. It was one of the first nice days.
About seven minutes later, Springfield police received a 911 call reporting that a white male in a jacket and jeans was sitting on the back of his car in the church lot with what looked not like an oboe, the instrument Barga says its most often confused with, but a long rifle. Listed under additional information on the dispatch form is what, in retrospect, must be considered a grace note: Unknown of it was for sure.
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Doesn't look anything like a gun.
You ever play a bassoon? My daughter did in High School. Try playing scales on that thing, especially in the higher register.
My younger brother has a Masters in Music Performance from DePaul. His instrument is the oboe. His cost him somewhere around $8,000 IIRC.
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Or cellos!
Theres already too much sax and violins.
Youre good. Really good.
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My French Horn is constantly confused with an Iranian centrifuge.
I believe that Emily Latilla first said that, and then when corrected, said, “Never mind.”
Ha! Awesome
My Thompson is too often mistaken for a violin.
Well, you know, that right hand in the bell could easily frighten the snowflakes. You could be hiding an AK-47 in there! ;-)
I would have thought it was a big bong.........
A couple summers ago, some unknown neighbor called the police on my kids. They were in the backyard with some friends comparing airsoft guns. Three officers walked into the backyard, looked at the boys and said “Oh, toys. Have a nice day” and left.
Thats a Tiberian rocket launcher from the planet Democratigula. They need to be banned immediately. Those struck by the missile simply F**k themselves to death.
Very dangerous.
LOL!
Its bigger brother is the bassooka.
Liberal PCUSA. Probably lots of snowflakes as members
Prof. Peter Schickele started as a bassoonist. Just saying.
He’s lucky the cops didn’t kill him
Freud offered something along those lines as well..lol.
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