[Dixielandjazz] But Can You Still Play The Blues?

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

That means I should be dead --
Larry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:27 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] But Can You Still Play The Blues?


> Bacteria hitching a ride on rented band instruments
>
> (Massachusetts-NBC) October 3, 2006 - This time of year many kids are
> joining band
> to learn to play an instrument, but it turns out, the instrument they 
> choose
> could
> make them sick. Lab studies find bacteria can grow inside your child's
> instrument.
>
> One Massachusetts school is doing something to prevent illness.
> Medford High School students play in the band to learn about music, but 
> now
> they're
> learning that playing an instrument could make them sick.
>
> Dr. Lorenzo Lepore, Maestromd founder, says, "Bacteria will grow in the
> moist dark
> environment inside the lumen's of musical instruments and so sitting 
> dormant
> for
> months sometimes will result in a surge of bacterial growth that sometimes
> can cause
> disease."
>
> Most students rent their instruments, which have been used by other 
> students
> before
> them.
>
> Loni-Anne Sanford is a student at Medford High. "I shared an instrument 
> that
> other
> people have used before," she admits.
> And while they're cleaned, they're "not" sterilized.
>
> Dr. Lepore says, "We've seen staph growth, strep growth, we've actually 
> been
> able
> to prove that bugs, bacteria that will cause diseases like meningitis and
> tuberculosis
> will grow inside these moist dark environments."
>
> That's why Medford High School is using Maestro MD, a first-of-its-kind
> service that
> sterilizes musical instruments "before" they're rented to students.
> The sterilization process takes 10 days, instruments are sealed in plastic
> and returned
> to the young musicians germ-free.
>
> Fine Arts Director Marsha Caron says, "It's very gratifying to have this
> available
> so we can help to ensure the safety and the health of our students."
> And student Joe Dibenedetto is also pleased, "After knowing how many 
> people
> have
> played this and just how dirty it gets ... I am definitely happy about
> this."
>
> The service costs $50 to $80 to sterilize an instrument depending on the
> size.
>
> Posted 1:30pm by
> Bryce Mursch
> www.worldnow.com/
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald K6YBV
> 916/806-9551
> www.ringwald.com
> --
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>>From "Hollywood Squares"
> Q. Do female frogs croak?
> A. Paul Lynde: "If you hold their little heads under water long enough."
>
>
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