[TPIN] What's Wrong With This Picture?

[Brian David Moon]

Brace is wrong too.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Calore" <jc1 at startechjournal.com>
To: "'TPIN' International Network'" <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [TPIN] What's Wrong With This Picture?


> http://www.statequarters.com/images/CoinDesigns/TN_big.jpg
> 
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 6:21 AM, Robert DeSavage wrote:
> 
>> While the general public would not see it as a trumpet player might, 
>> take a close look at the face of the Tennessee state quarter. How many 
>> players have a trumpet like the one shown on the on the coin? It's not 
>> your 'typical' trumpet since it's shown as a mirror image. Some might 
>> argue that it's a horn built for a southpaw and intentionally 
>> incorporated that way on the design of the coin which would be a valid 
>> point. However as a trumpet player and one who passed the "Are you 
>> Monkish test" with flying colors, I see it as being a glaring flaw 
>> since every trumpet I've ever seen or held was not configured the way 
>> it is shown on the coin. Call me a nit-picker, but when I looked at an 
>> image of the coin, it hit me like a ton of bricks. If the design was 
>> approved as being seen as a southpaw trumpet, that's fine. But if it 
>> was an oversight that fell thru the cracks by the committee that 
>> approves a final design, it's not fine at all. One thing for sure is 
>> that even though I'm pushing 64, my eyes are still in pretty good 
>> shape even though they let me down when I'm at the pool table. I'm 
>> sure that I'll get flamed, but I prepared myself for that by taking my 
>> asbestos clothing out of mothballs. 8-)
>> BOB D.
>>
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