posted on October 27, 2001 10:06:25 AM new
In the spirit of UA's reaction to the guy with the book in another thread here...
Received this last week, from a mailing list I subscribe to:
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:46:27 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Instruments of Terror
My housemate Tommy just returned from an AGO (American Guild of Organists)
meeting/concert this evening. The scheduled attraction for tonight was a
concert featuring pipe organ and alpenhorn. The featured alpenhornist
lives in Rhode Island, and has an alpenhorn that disassembles into two
pieces in order to make it easier to travel with.
He did not, alas, make it to this concert. Amtrak forbade him from boarding
the train with his instrument, on the grounds that the case looked too much
like a bazooka. He offered to assemble and play the instrument, to prove
that it was indeed an instrument of music and not of war, but they were having
none of it. No alpenhorns on Amtrak--too dangerous.
One wonders what they would think of, say, Highland pipes.
posted on October 27, 2001 12:54:28 PM new
Yeah, I'm usually a white knuckle flyer in the best of times so I usually take an engrossing book with me. On my last trip from SF to DC, I read a book about serial killers - it would probably be confiscated now.
posted on October 27, 2001 02:02:18 PM new
Now I have to go find out what an alpenhorn looks like so I don't accidentaly shoot anyone pointing one at me.
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