minstrel: instruments

[Corrie Bergeron]

Of course there will be some who look down their noses at you for not having
mined the copper and tin ore with which to make your instrument, but just
stick a bassoon reed in your horn instead of a regular mouthpiece and you'll
easily keep them at bay!  <G>  

At 11:33 AM 9/18/97 -0500, turnms01 at holmes.ipfw.indiana.edu wrote:
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>On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Corrie Bergeron wrote:
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>> At 05:37 PM 9/17/97 -0400, Greg Lindahl wrote:
>> >>  I was merely warning the original poster that if he
>> >> chose to play a guitar, that some purists would drop on him like a ton of
>> >> bricks for being "unperiod."
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>> >I know many good performers who do authentic stuff and don't act like
>> >that; perhaps you should just call these particular ones "rude people"
>> >instead of "purists".
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>> >-- gb
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>> Ahh, well said!  I meant "purist" as a deliberately derogatory term, along
>> the lines if "Mistress Lauel Seamchecker."  I discriminate between those
>> commendable folk who perform only documentably authentic material and those
>> irritating persons who insist (usually vociferously) that everyone else do
>> so as well.  If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it.
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>> Corrie / Brendan
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>		God help me, but when I actually get around to learning
>the sackbut, I hope these "purists" don't stone me for playing a trombone
>when I haven't been able to hack it the the "hackbut."
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>		-Faremanne de Vere
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