Out of touch


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Posted by Rick Denney on February 02, 2001 at 12:02:42:

Okay, I know I'm out of touch with modern society. But still...

I'm sitting next to a high school kid who is a fine player, who owns a 4/4 Hirsbrunner CC that had a repaired bell (had been in a car wreck), and he tells me that his folks are buying him a new horn when he goes to college.

Sigh.

And the kid sitting next to him is playing a B&S CC stencil that's about 15 years old, but should be a fine instrument.

They look at me like I'm white trash when I tell them that I played on a plastic sousaphone my entire school career until my senior year, when my band director was able to borrow a Miraphone (a "lowly" Miraphone) from Rice University for me to play. As a senior in high school, I had to learn to use the fourth valve, and these guys are playing their own pro-quality horns.

When I told the Hirbrunner player that he should go home and bow down to his parents in gratefulness, he laughed like I was making a joke.

Rick "green" Denney


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