[TPIN] Trumpets and stupidity

[Mark Flegg]

Hehe... this reminds me of the time I was in woodwind class, learning to
play the flute for my music ed degree. The instructor was telling us about
how it is important to make sure your students know how to properly handle
their instruments, for example, never let them leave their flute on the
music stand. At this point he put the flute on the lip of the stand to
demonstrate. At just that moment, there was a knock on the classroom door,
which distracted him and caused him to turn around suddenly and trip over
the music stand, which in turn spun around and launched the flute about 15
feet across the room.

On 9/1/07, smatt401 at dotnet.com <smatt401 at dotnet.com> wrote:
>
> All:
>
> A quote applicable to the care and feeding of trumpets.
>
> "Ignorance is curable, stupidity is not." (BTW, stupidity
> is defined as a low ability to profit from experience--and
> the best way to learn from experience is to learn from
> someone else's experience).
>
> After my first band concert in 1963 I set my shiny new
> cornet down on a xylophone and left for another area. I
> came back to find it had been dropped and dented. "In
> the hand or in the case" instantly became my motto for <SNIP>
>

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