Friday, July 31, 2009

Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week, Cheap Version

FRUGALHORN: A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week - Piano

Piano Tuner: A person employed to come into the home, rearrange the furniture, and annoy the cat. The Tuner's chief purpose is to ascertain the breaking point of the piano's strings.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week - Harmonica

Nope, not done with the Harmonica/Blues Harp yet. I had this Stephen Wright joke stuck in my head, and I just had to let it out...

Steven Wright: I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

BTW, talk about an affordable - and handy! - musical instrument. Recession or not, who can't manage to put the money together to buy a humble harmonica?

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Harmonica Blues Tie
"Blow the Blues" T-Shirt

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Procrastination Thursday - Toot/Winds: Harmonica

"Procrastination Thursday"? This is when you haven't gotten around to "TootsDay", and not even "WindsDay", and lump them altogether the very next day (obviously, Thursday).

Think Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, et al.... It's the Harmonica, it's the Blues Harp!

(Pictured: Harmonica/Blues Harp Magnet)
Featuring The Harmonica, also known as the "Blues Harp" for those of us fond of The Blues.
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Friday, July 10, 2009

Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week

FLUTE: A sophisticated pea shooter with a range of up to 500 yards, blown transversely to confuse the enemy.
Red Flute Blue Flute shirt

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

WindsDay! - Pick a Piccolo

Piccolo Top 10 shirt
Piccolo Top 10 by MarchingBand
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Pick a Piccolo - the cuter flute?

Obviously, I'm still on the Piccolo thing where I left off on the 4th of July (Remember Sousa and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" piccolo solo, etc.?)

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Friday, July 03, 2009

Music TGIF - 4th of July Version - Piccolo

It's Bad Music Joke of the Week - the 4th of July Version.

In a 4th-of-July mood and thinking about the piccolo solo (or piccoli soli if the band is lucky enough to have more than one good piccolo player).

Do you remember the words from your childhood that go with this piccolo/piccoli section of "Stars and Stripes Forever"? As I recall them...

Be kind to your web-footed friends
for a duck may be somebody's mother.
Be kind to your friends in the swamp
where the weather is very, very damp.
Well, you may think that this is the end,
but it's not!

Now that that is firmly stuck in your head, repeating itself:

DILL PICCOLO: A small wind instrument which only plays sour notes.

And, one more time, and this is not a joke:

John Phillip Sousa "Stars and Stripes Forever" ♫ http://twt.fm/188169

Happy 4th of July, Independence Day!

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

WindsDay - Sousa - Tubas & the 4th of July

A Salute to Sousaphones, as well as to John Phillip Sousa, with the 4th of July coming up.

John Phillip Sousa "Stars and Stripes Forever" ♫ http://twt.fm/188169

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