[Dixielandjazz] Selling your organ for Sax

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

I can totally relate to that,  I have sold Sex my entire musical career 
to buy instruments and play my music, that is what makes music such a 
Noble Profession, and hey don't laugh, just last week a guy offered me 
fifty bucks for my $500.00 Bass drum.  But I can't sell it yet, I am 
still working paying gigs to pay it off.   I figure another ten twenty 
years tops it's all mine :))

And some day it will be auctioned off on this list for probably 60 or 
70 bucks, if the washboard comes with it. :))

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins



-----Original Message-----
From: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 1:37 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Selling your organ for Sax

   That's Sax, not Sex, Paul.

Came across this BBC item while checking the auction price for Bird's 
metal
sax. Just goes to show how dedicated reed players are. I hope he is 
getting
some paying gigs.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Moldovan's organ sold for sax

A musician in Moldova has gone to an extraordinary length to get his 
career
started - by selling his kidney to afford a saxophone.

Sergiu, 23 - who as a professional musician has toured parts of Europe -
sold the kidney to a Turkish hospital for $10,000 (£5,800).

He has since been able to afford the instruments to further his career 
in
the poverty-stricken eastern European country.

"This is my only profession. All I know is to make music," Sergiu told 
the
BBC's Romanian service.

"I don't know anything else. I can't do anything else, and my future 
depends
on these instruments I have," he said.

"They are my daily bread." . . . remainder snipped.


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