[Dixielandjazz] FW: What?

[David Richoux]

That story reminds me of the so-called musical instrument "The  
Bazooka" invented by Bob Burns that later became the actual name of  
the US Army anti-tank rocket launcher!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka

(and I actually met the only current semi-pro Bazooka Player - ORMLY  
GUMFUDGIN
http://www.gumfudgin.com/ )

Dave Richoux

On May 3, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Marek Boym wrote:

> Reminds me of a story we were told at the monthly "musical enrichment"
> concert at school in Poland when I was little.  In the late 1940's, a
> group of musicians was travelling to a school concert; among their
> instruments there was a bassoon.  In those days, there were still
> anti-communist partisans in the forests, and gangs of Ukrainian
> nationalists were trying to escape trials for collaboration with the
> NAZIs and get to the West.  At a remote train station the musicians
> were arrested, and it took them a long time to explain that the
> bassoon was a musical instrument, not a macine gun!
> Cheers
>
> On 02/05/07, BettyLynch at aol.com <BettyLynch at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 5/1/2007 3:11:51 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>> jim at kashprod.com writes:
>>
>> We have  an electric up-right stick bass
>>
>>
>> Bob Ringwald told us about electric fences a whil back, so be  
>> very  careful.
>>
>> Gene (Betty had nothing to do with thisI)Lynch
>> Redondo Beach, CA
>>
>>