[Dixielandjazz] But Can You Still Play The Blues?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

wonderful:  Now they want to spend $50.00 to $80.00 per instrument to 
sterilize a used  horn that might be worth $25.00 !!

Why don't they just teach the kids to BLOW and Not Suck the instrument, 
and don't drain the spit valve on the kid in front of them or on their 
lunch bag with their sandwich sitting on it.  :))

Hell  Bix never caught those kind of diseases but then again he blew a 
lot of alcohol thru his which surely sterilized his horn don't ya spose 
?   As did many others.  And how about the  Trombone player who blew so 
much Garlic thru his horn.   These new teachers are just paranoid.

They could just pour a bit of Listerene thru it once a week and it 
should do the trick or maybe Lysol would work.  :))

The worst disease most boys are going to get is the kissing disease 
which most of them will get not from kissing at all, but from licking 
the mouthpieces of the girls horns and clarinets wishing they could 
kiss them,   That's almost as good right ??  They could now brag to 
their buddies that they kissed that girl, and licking the mouthpiece 
would certainly qualify as being close enough. :))  ha ha  ROTFLOL

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: robert at ringwald.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 5:27 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
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www.ringwald.com
--
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 Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: "If you hold their little heads under water long 
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