[Dixielandjazz] Not the "Old Left-Hander"!

[Bill Gunter]

Hi again, folks,

I've been doing a bit of googling on this twin stuff and found this 
interesting bit about identical twins -

"Genetically speaking, the children of identical twins are half-siblings 
rather than cousins."

That means essentially that such children have the same mother but different 
fathers (or vice versa).

I don't know what else that means and I'm not reading anything into it.

On the topic of similar traits found in identical twins, it's not surprising 
that the Midiri Brothers are both exellent musicians.

I know another set of identical twins, band leader (the Catsnjammers) Gene 
Berthelsen and his brother.  Gene's brother is not a musician (though I'm 
sure he could easily be one) - he is a journalist. Interestingly, Gene is 
unusually gifted in literary skills, has written several books (I think 
unpublished) and has served in a public information capacity for both the 
State of California and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. The Berthelsen 
wordsmiths I call 'em.

Cheers,

Bill "Has anyone seen that movie, The Corsican Brothers?" Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com



>From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Not the "Old Left-Hander"!
>Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:08:58 +0000
>
>Hello all,
>
>I earlier wrote (re: left and right handed people):
>
>>The two cells were symmetric mirrors of each other and, as a result, the 
>>two individuals produced were identical but mirrored (if that's a word). I 
>>know two sets of identical twins and in each case one is right handed and 
>>the other is left handed.
>
>A question just occurred to me - does anyone know if the Midiri Brothers 
>are left and right handed?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill "Not that it matters" Gunter
>jazzboard at hotmail.com