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Someone called 911, but this man’s maple instrument wasn’t a gun. It was a bassoon.
Springfield News-Sun ^
| May 12, 2018
| Tom Stafford
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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2a; bassoon; guns; ohio
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
He invented the ‘tromboon’.
To: spokeshave2
Fox makes some srysly good stuff.
I got my wife's oboe and english horn from them.
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posted on
05/14/2018 5:41:20 AM PDT
by
onona
(Hope, Faith, Love)
To: Fresh Wind
My fiddle bow is often mistaken for a saber.
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posted on
05/14/2018 5:43:02 AM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
A society of feral retards.
To: Fresh Wind
A bassoon is an assault oboe. Ha! I play the oboe and completely agree.
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posted on
05/14/2018 5:51:24 AM PDT
by
Not A Snowbird
(Formerly SandyInSeattle cuz I moved!)
To: Fightin Whitey
too much sax and violins Is that original?
Hilarious.
You guys are cracking me up. Your life expectancy in an Islamic country would be a few minutes at most.
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posted on
05/14/2018 5:56:26 AM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
To: a fool in paradise
And a shoulder thing that goes up.
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posted on
05/14/2018 5:56:32 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
To: RitchieAprile
Also the Hardart, the left-handed sewer flute, and more. A seriously twisted individual.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The caller, what a maroon!
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:02:32 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
To: Candor7; Lazamataz
That's 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. Did it hit Laz?
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:06:20 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Don’t know what it is, call it a gun. Fingers in what some call the “shape” of a gun, call it a gun. Poptart half eaten, call it a gun. Man says “got any gum?”, call cops. Man walking with a photo tripod, call cops about man with submachine gun.
The collective insanity is getting worse.
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:06:23 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Raging feminazis love abortion because they hate themselves.)
To: from occupied ga
He’s also lucky he didn’t have a dog...
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:07:32 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
To: Covenantor
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:08:39 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I was in DFW airport once upon a time, with a tenor saxophone in a flight case. Someone actually asked me, 'Is that a gun?'
I said no, something much more dangerous. A saxophone.
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:16:11 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
My God...what morons...David AttentionHogg, ki found your next issue... The Bassoon. We need to ban them... 😀
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:19:21 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Stop! You’re under a rest!
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:20:18 AM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(Being offended is a choice.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
It’s a good thing he didn’t have bagpipes.
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:21:25 AM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:26:49 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Fresh Wind
The bassoon is the heavy gun (real gun), the oboe is the firearm/handgun.
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:28:06 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: real saxophonist
I helped an elderly Chinese gent at an airport security check. He was trying to carry on an expensive tonearm for a record player. The screener didn’t know what it was and the old gent didn’t speak English. A good tonearm can cost several thousand $. I just saw a complete high-end Clearaudio turntable with an upgraded tonearm offered for $52,000.
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posted on
05/14/2018 6:53:50 AM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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