Giovanni asks: Hi all,
Does anyone know if Prof. I.M. Gestopftmitscheist is still on the hornlist? I miss some of his pithy comments and general good humor. Giovanni :-> I can safely say that my teacher, Prof. G., is still lurking on the list but his busy schedule keeps him from writing. Also, the intelligence level shown in the posts here lately has been very high so he probably doesn't understand half of what is being discussed. I think the only thing he might respond to is the question from the student working on Reynolds Etude No. 6 and we all know what his advice there would be. As to his current projects, he just left for Vienna, the scab, to record the clams for the Vienna Sound Cube sample module. As usual, he is getting the same fee for the wrong notes as he gets for the right ones. Otherwise, he has had a busy season having completed his 1,500,000th live in the practice room performance of Kopprasch No. 1. He also just returned from the APCC (American Pest Control Council) convention in Atlantic City where he gave his famous seminar on killing rats with ultra sound. He had gotten a new bell flare for the front bell of the Sansone made especially for him by Black and Decker using the same "pre-aged material" that Hoyer is using on the Heritage models. Unfortunately, it was so cold that the rat he was going to use for his demo had already frozen to death in the back of the microbus. I guess he found some live rats in the hotel kitchen so that saved the day. Hans, if you go the Vienna anytime in the next few days, look him up at the Hotel Ekelhaft. I must warn you, though, that he might not be in very good humor as he is under a lot of stress having to perform at such a high level for these recordings. I'm sure he sends his "Seasonings Greetonings" to you all and would thank you for asking about him! Best regards, Kendall Betts _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
