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A guy from Pakistan called me on the phone today. He was in Twin Falls (15 miles away) and wanted to meet with me to talk about his great flutes. He also makes professional quality uilleann pipes, harps, trombones, oil filters and other instruments.

Said he makes 8000 flutes a year so he must be really good. That's like 22 flutes a day! I don't know why the heck my flute makers are so slow.

He even wanted to give me a free, six-key cocus wood Irish Pratten flute to try out. They're usually $75 and he was just going to give it to me!

Unfortunately I had some emergency anal glands to express on a labrador and couldn't tear myself away.

Alas, how the great opportunities pass us by ... :P

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Anal glands or a free Pakistani flute? I guess that is a tough decision :D
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Wow, trombones AND oil filters too!
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Expressing anal glands.. :o and I thought cross fingering was tough.. :boggle:
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If he wasn't gonna throw in a few free hose clamps, you didn't miss much.
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true enough....dang hard to keep them oil filters on the trombones without hose clamps
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Post by mutepointe »

Anal glands are a dime a dozen as our mass produced flutes but how many opportunities do you get to meet a Pakistani flute maker? Jbfluter would have held him captive until he cried uncle.

(I believe it's jbfluter who is trying to improve the Pakistani flute empire, I could be wrong.)
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who would have thought a dog's arse would look so good.
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Post by sbfluter »

If you mean me, no, I'm not trying to fix anything Pakistani.

I'd like to visit Pakistan someday though.
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Post by Denny »

I think that he meant jemtheflute
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... 5&start=70

yeah, I know....you two look so alike :wink:

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Post by norcalbob »

Denny wrote:
sometimes mute doesn't point too well
:lol: There you go again, Mr. Smarty Pants, ruining my embouchure for the rest of the evening...
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:oops: sorry :oops:

hey! remind me to mention that button, in the upper right corner of the post that says quote, to you soon. Okay?
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Qui? Moi? C'est incroyable!
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Denny wrote::oops: sorry :oops:

hey! remind me to mention that button, in the upper right corner of the post that says quote, to you soon. Okay?
Well that seems to make things QUITE a bit less tedious than my normal MO :)
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we'll save the preview button for another day :D

yeah Jem....you're up for impersonating a Californian

hmmm, ya are west coastish :twisted:
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