greenspiderweb wrote:Jon, you of course know what this means now? You've officially achieved
FLUTE GEEZER STATUS!!!
You may now creak a little when you play, and nobody will say anything...but, look at that old geezer over there...
And then you can just flash them back, a knowing, unfettered smile...and play away! You're also allowed to forget where you were in a tune, and pick it up later, when you remember again...see, just part of the benefits of geezerhood~!
Jim, Happy Birthday too! Now you can creak a lot!!!
Jon..........Believe it.....it's all too true !
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"I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't;
only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... "
Your not that Old Geezer who shows up at sessions with his walker banging away on the floor and makes everyone move to get out of his way. Then settles down to play and just opens up the valve on his oxygen tank and never has to take a breath while he's playing...
Your not that Old Geezer who shows up at sessions with his walker banging away on the floor and makes everyone move to get out of his way. Then settles down to play and just opens up the valve on his oxygen tank and never has to take a breath while he's playing...
Are you?????
Don't worry old age is all in your mind!
I said, old age is all in your mind!
Old Age...Oh never mind!
Not me........I still have to take a breath every couple tunes....ask Cat...
Hey Jon...this is just a sample of what you'll have to put up wit from these consarned younsters....
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"I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't;
only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... "
Happy Birthday, Jon.... I never would have thought you were turning 50, you don't look a day over 49 I'm a ways ahead of you, and can tell ya that 50 was a good year. Best wishes - Tod
Tell us something.: I restore 19th century flutes, specializing in Rudall & Rose, and early American flutes. I occasionally make new flutes. Been at it for about 15 years.
Thanks everyone.
I ended up having a nice semi-surprise birthday party at a Thai resturant in Berkley, where some friends took me out to lunch. I was served fryed bananas and coconut ice cream with two candles.
"I love the flute because it's the one instrument in the world where you can feel your own breath. I can feel my breath with my fingers. It's as if I'm speaking from my soul..."
Michael Flatley
Tell us something.: I restore 19th century flutes, specializing in Rudall & Rose, and early American flutes. I occasionally make new flutes. Been at it for about 15 years.
Nelson wrote:Hi Jon, keep active so when you are my age you will still be quick enouth to stick a fishing worm up a wild cat's ass.
Nelson
PS Did you get my Czech mid-section?
Thanks, I think...
I will be back home tomorrow, I am sure the Czech will be waiting.
"I love the flute because it's the one instrument in the world where you can feel your own breath. I can feel my breath with my fingers. It's as if I'm speaking from my soul..."
Michael Flatley
Tell us something.: I play the first flute Jon Cochran ever made but haven't been very active on the board the last 9-10 years. Life happens I guess...I owned a keyed M&E flute for a while and I kind of miss it.
Happy Birthday Jon...may your dreams be filled with Potters, Rudall and Roses and Fentum flutes. The Thai food sounds great....what are you doing all the way up in Bazerkley?
Tell us something.: I restore 19th century flutes, specializing in Rudall & Rose, and early American flutes. I occasionally make new flutes. Been at it for about 15 years.
michael_coleman wrote:Happy Birthday Jon...may your dreams be filled with Potters, Rudall and Roses and Fentum flutes. The Thai food sounds great....what are you doing all the way up in Bazerkley?
I was up here on buisness.
And anyway, Berkley is the only place to get good Thai!
"I love the flute because it's the one instrument in the world where you can feel your own breath. I can feel my breath with my fingers. It's as if I'm speaking from my soul..."
Michael Flatley
Sheesh! You get free lunch for your birthday.
All I get is a colonoscopy.
Here's a little piece I wrote five years ago to
commemorate the last one.
Lately when my trainer, Davy Gamble, bounces a medicine ball off my gut while I do situps, something inside me emits a tone of considerable purity and sweetness. Finally I brought an electronic tuner to the gym--the note is a C, spot on.
I decided to have it checked out. Dr.
Weintraub, an expert endoscopist at Barnes
Jewish Hospital, performed the procedure,
assisted by two muscular nurses, Gertrude
and Brunhilde, who held me in place as the
scope navigated my innards.
"I see something up ahead," Dr. Weintraub
announced, peering at the TV monitor. "It looks like a tube, with four,
no, six holes. There's a red mouthpiece
and a logo: 'G' 'E' 'N'..."
"I know!" I exclaimed. "It was the Philosophy and Neuroscience Picnic. I was
guzzling beer and playing my high G whistle
at the same time. Later I couldn't find the
whistle..."
"Well, it's lodged in your duodenum pretty
good" Dr. Weintraub said. "I can't budge it
with the scope."
"I don't want it out. I want to control
the pitch."
"Maybe we can arrange that much.
Cross your right leg over your left leg
and swivel your hips. Good! Brunhilde,
punch Professor Stone in the solar plexus,
please."
Whack!
Tweet!
"That was a D!"
"OK, now reverse, the left leg over the
right one.."
Whack!
Tweet!
"That was an A! Thanks, Doc! Now let's
try for the second octave!"
"This is one for the journals, alright."
So there you have it. My digestive
system now doubles as a bagpipe. When
Davy bounces the ball of my gut I can
play B.B. King tunes, which really cracks
him up. Also I can sing duets with myself.
I do have to gyrate my hips obscenely, but, hey,
so did Elvis.
Next week Dr. Weintraub, Gertrude,
Brunhilde and I are going to work
on crans.
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FLUTE GEEZER STATUS!!!
Now you can creak a lot!!!
I'm a ways ahead of you, and can tell ya that 50 was a good year. Best wishes - Tod
