[Dixielandjazz] Dr. Jazz; Jazz Health; Tuba Callus?

[drjz]

Dan,
"Don't Blame Me"-"Put The Blame On" (not Mame) - but Franchesco Ronchese, M.
D., a dermatologist, and author of "Occupational Marks"! Any French horn
players out there?! Cheers.
Fred

Dan Augustine wrote:

> >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:42:53 -0400
> >From: drjz <drjz@bealenet.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Dr. Jazz; Jazz Health?
> >
> >Dear Dan (and others),
>   <snip>
> >I have a book entitled "Occupational Marks" that contains 4 pages of
> >text, and 6 of illustrations, pertaining to musicians. I wonder if
> >you have the tuba players' "thick callus on [your] right little
> >finger tip", as opposed to the French horn players' "same callus but
> >on the left little finger tip"!?
> >Fred
> **--------------------------------------------------------------------**
> Fred and others--
>      Hmm. This 'tuba callus' on the right pinky intrigues me.  I've
> been playing tuba for 50 years, and i have no such callus.  Further,
> i can't figure out how anyone would get one in the course of normal
> tuba-playing.  The right little-finger rests lightly on the tuba's
> fourth-valve top--if there is one--and on nothing (by elegant
> necessity) if there isn't one.  And that fourth valve is little used
> in most musics.
>      Perhaps it's the tip of the right little-finger that strikes
> hardest against the surface of one's music stand or chair while
> drumming the fingers and counting measures of rest: 204/-2-3-4,
> 205/-2-3-4, 206/-2-3-4--BLAT!!  1/-2-3-4, 2/-2-3-4...  That would
> account for the pinky's radical keratinity, eh?
>
>      Dan
>
> P. S. Note how i have dexterously eschewed the most obvious pun, a
> form of humor to which fools aspire and wise men stoop (Bierce).
> --
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