What kind of glue are you using on those parsnips? Remember, the
organic ones need longer clamping time.
s
On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Daniel Winheld wrote:
Damn it, I want to see Gonzalo's oboe again. The last time we had
parsnips they were much too tough, and the finger holes didn't help a
bit.
I think David was kidding about the oboe (hence the :) sign). The
objects Dan describes do not resemble any oboe da caccia I've seen.
The goldish-colored "oboe" part looks like a pestle, and the
similarly-colored round object is more than likely the mortar or
similar dish. It can't be the bell of a wind instrument (the oboe
da caccia is so named because it has a flaring bell resembling a
horn, or "corno da caccia"), because it has a bottom, which would of
course stop the air flow completely and cause the oboist to explode.
In any event, Linard apparently died around 1645, before the
Hotteterres developed the oboe, and probably 50 or 60 years before
the oboe da caccia.
David may have been noticing that the parsnip at the lower right
edge of the table appears to have finger holes like a wind
instrument. But of course the parsnip was a single-reed instrument.
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