[TPIN] "Art" trumpet/lamp

[vglockwood at comcast.net]

I love you guys!  Maybe your room looks like this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/33187451/

- Gin



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From: Vaxtrpts at aol.com 

> 
> In a message dated 1/9/2007 10:42:05 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> kennyroe at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> 
> I have come across a couple instruments (a trumpet and trombone) that 
> were in no way repairable. I had a person squash them with a 
> roller/compactor. At the present time they are hanging on the wall of 
> my office in my school's bandroom. Every year I get asked what 
> happened to the instruments. And every year I say the same thing, 
> "Nothing, they just play a little flat." 
> 
> later...ken 
> 
> 
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>>>>>> 
> I love it! I also have a friend who did that with some instruments and they 
> are in the music room in his home. I totally agree that if an instrument 
> isn't really repairable, that ANY kind of artwork that it is made into, is much 
> preferable to just throwing it away. And I also agree that the instruments 
> on the walls of restaurants DO at least keep the vision of music accessible 
> to the patrons. 
> Mike Vax 
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