[Dixielandjazz] Oliver and Armstrong - relative "loudness"

[Charlie Hooks]

on 7/21/03 4:58 PM, Richard Broadie at richard.broadie at gte.net wrote:

> Is it too late to get a patent on a drum mute?  Just think.  Don or Charlie
> could have given Barrett Deems one for Christmas and their hearing could
> have been saved.

Nah--no mute would have helped.  Maybe putting him the next room with the
door closed--then maybe not even that!

Charlie