Re: [Harp-l] inhaled reed? NOT

[BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 12/29/2006 12:21:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jkuzloski@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Michelle, thanks for the advice.  Of course, the day after  visiting a 
doc and getting a few x-rays at his suggestion (and yours!), I  found 
the darn broken portion of the reed on the floor at  home!!!   It 
seemed unlikely that I would have inhaled it w/o  feeling it, but it 
also seemed possible (especially with my big wide open  embouchure!).  
I'm relieved and can now stop thinking that maybe I  feel something 
weird in my lungs!  Thanks for your concern.
--John  K.



John, thanx for sending that. What  kind of harp where you playing? When it 
happened to me I didn't swallow it or  anything I just spit it out into my hand 
after gagging a little on it. The  boys couldn't believe it. That's about the 
only thing that would keep me from  playin' my lead when it came up and they 
looked at me strange when I quit  playing. LOL What really freaked me out was 
the thought that any of it got by  that I couldn't feel. I had a temporary 
colostomy in 85 and the surgeon was  convinced it was a piece of sax reed that 
caused it. I don't think it  was, I think it was a chicken bone from Bojangle's. 
Well anyway I can  honestly say that I have been onstage taking a dump into a 
bag and playing harp  at the same time. Frank Zappa would have been jealous 
had he known. YEEE HAAAA  .......give me the bridge yall.
           Randy