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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Sarah's recital
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Tue Jan 23 09:22:59 2007
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Jim:

Since you were a utility man, I can understand sorting through a lot of 
reeds.

Through Erin, I met a lot of oboists. All of them made their own reeds, 
even the then BSO principal oboists.

It was almost ritualistic, kinda like people who shot and then develop 
their own B&W film! :-)

Jim

Jim Nichols wrote:

> As the "utility man" in my high school band, I was a saxophone player 
> who was called on to learn the oboe because some of our required pieces 
> for the state contest required oboe solos.  With a good reed, it is a 
> wonderful instrument. The problem is that you must sort through a lot of 
> reeds to find a good one.  In my college days I was asked to try the 
> bassoon, because we did not have a bassoon player.  I got by, but it 
> lived up to its reputation of "an ill wind that nobody blows good".
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Sarah's recital
> 
> 
>> Oboe ... that was my daughter's favorite instrument, until her
>> charismatic teacher got the boot. She never managed to adjust to
>> another teacher. The first one lived for his oboe.
>>
>> Like making music by blowing through a straw at MacDonalds, she was
>> told (by my son's violin tutor). A challenge like that she couldn't
>> turn down.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On 1/23/07, Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nice shots, Peter.
>>>
>>> That's my daughter standing there eighteen years ago, playing her oboe
>>> at her senior recital.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: Sarah's recital)
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