[Dixielandjazz] But Can You Still Play The Blues?

[Margaret Squires]

Interesting.  The music store I where I work has been
renting instruments since 1936 and has had no
problems.  Yet.

Margaret
Gottschalk Music Center
Modesto, CA


--- "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Leader, The Fulton Street Jazz Band
> www.fultonstreetjazz.com
> --
> The Boondockers (jazz and Comedy)
> www.theboondockers.com
> 
> >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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