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1812 Overture - please don't try this at home
Uraguay Times
| 08/1998
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Posted on 06/30/2002 3:45:16 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
BTT and LOL
Now this is worthy news.
Regards
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posted on
06/30/2002 5:44:42 PM PDT
by
ZDaphne
To: RedBloodedAmerican
After reading this I had to scroll up and check again to see if it was from "The Onion".
Life is stranger than fiction!
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posted on
06/30/2002 5:49:41 PM PDT
by
LibKill
To: TroutStalker
Yes, extrememly well written!
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posted on
06/30/2002 5:49:55 PM PDT
by
RossA
To: RedBloodedAmerican
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posted on
06/30/2002 6:25:23 PM PDT
by
fnord
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Having spent almost thirty years in trombone sections of various sizes, playing virtually every type of music, I can say that although this may be an urban legend, it rings true. Being a trombonist (obviously) and understanding their warped senses of humor, this did not stretch my imagination the first time I read it.
By the way, this piece had to have been written by a trombonist-the amount of detail regarding the instrument and the mute (and the writing style) and the physics involved point to a bone player.
By the way--what does a trombonist write his gigs on?
His Career-at-a-Glance, of course.
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posted on
06/30/2002 6:27:13 PM PDT
by
Trombone
To: RossA
Damn good thing that he was not playing a tuba !
To: RedBloodedAmerican; EODGUY; Cyber Liberty
Believeable.
Completely believeable.
The guy's a low bass player.
What else would you expect? Heck, he missed the the woodwind and viola sections of the orchestra and got the conductor.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Low Brass?
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posted on
06/30/2002 6:53:39 PM PDT
by
Trombone
To: RedBloodedAmerican
bang
To: Trombone
Yeah, Low bass .... Hole story sounds fishy to me.
I mean, gimme a break.
You'd have me believe a tromebone player would remember to bring his mute to a performance?
To: Trombone
. . . although this may be an urban legend, it rings true. I suspect a projectile with the energy to knock the conductor offstage and into the crowd, displacing several rows of seats, would have killed him. Paolo and the third clarinetist would have to have absorbed similar energy, but somehow they didn't. Doesn't work for me.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
"Hold mah beer....."
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I say bring back the concept of smashing one's musical instrument after the concert, ala "The Who".
If this story is authentic, my guess is the trombonest's hearing is a little on the deficient side, or, if he's reading this comment, "MY GUESS IS THE TROMBONEST'S HEARING IS A LITTLE ON THE DEVICIENT SIDE NOW".
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posted on
07/01/2002 5:08:58 AM PDT
by
EODGUY
To: RedBloodedAmerican
bttt - Thanks.
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posted on
07/01/2002 5:11:13 AM PDT
by
lodwick
To: RedBloodedAmerican
I heard a voice with a Austrian accent say "Fur every akshon zer iz un eekvul un opposeet reakshon!" I wonder...whom might it have been that Paolo thought he heard speaking in his head?
Surely Sir Isaac Newton did not speak with an Austrian accent.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
I always get a blast ffom 1812 Festival Overture but this is pushing the envelope,
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posted on
07/01/2002 5:19:43 AM PDT
by
oyez
To: dighton; aculeus; MississippiDeltaDawg; general_re; MozartLover
First, because he failed to sufficiently elevate the bell of his horn, the blast propelled the mute between rows of players in the woodwind and viola sections of the orchestra, missing the players and straight into the stomach of the conductor, driving him off the podium and directly into the front row of the audience.If the audience had been teenagers, they would've just given the conductor a mosh pit ride...
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posted on
07/01/2002 5:45:33 AM PDT
by
Poohbah
To: dighton; aculeus
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posted on
07/01/2002 6:11:03 AM PDT
by
Orual
To: RedBloodedAmerican
![](http://www.piemovie2.com/cast/pics/alyson3.jpg)
"This one time, at band camp..."
To: Orual; aculeus
Looks like this story is an urban legend. Darn"Si non e vero, e ben trovato."
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posted on
07/01/2002 6:35:52 AM PDT
by
dighton
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