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Methinks the inmates are running the asylum. From: Jon Callas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Eristocracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:46:27 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Instruments of Terror My housemate Tommy just returned from an AGO (American Guild of Organists) meeting/concert this evening. The scheduled attraction for tonight was a concert featuring pipe organ and alpenhorn. The featured alpenhornist lives in Rhode Island, and has an alpenhorn that disassembles into two pieces in order to make it easier to travel with. He did not, alas, make it to this concert. Amtrak forbade him from boarding the train with his instrument, on the grounds that the case looked too much like a bazooka. He offered to assemble and play the instrument, to prove that it was indeed an instrument of music and not of war, but they were having none of it. No alpenhorns on Amtrak--too dangerous. One wonders what they would think of, say, Highland pipes. Amanda Walker
