Re: [Harp-L] don't try this at home kids.... you may need the, HEIMLICH maneuver!

["Splash" <celtiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Laughter is good for the soul.  And your blood pressure, and for hormones in
the brain, and any number of other benefits.

Thank you for my dose today.


PEACE
Scott
Believe in Magic!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Bonfiglio" <bon@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 7:01 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] don't try this at home kids.... you may need the,HEIMLICH
maneuver!


>
>
> On Oct 9, 2007, Rob Paparozzi wrote.
> > Now I know Bonfiglio has played this piece but HE uses his HANDS!!
> >
> > Vern....please send this guy a HANDS FREE Rack... he's makin' me
> > nervous!!!!
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKuhRF3WmM
>
> A good story about that - I did play the William Tell once for a
> Pepto Bismol commercial sight-reading in some awful key like E
> Major.  The chart said "UPSTAIRS DIARRHEA"  and the commercial had a
> family running from their bedrooms to the john.
>
> So at the end of the read through the horn player asks the arranger
> if he can play a pedal tone on the last note; the arranger asks what
> that would sound like and out comes this huge fart sound.  So the
> bass player says he's playing "down and loose" and untunes his string
> and gives it a slap.
>
> Now we can't get through a take without someone laughing which is
> funny at first but pretty soon we are approaching overtime.  The
> arranger asks everyone to bite their lip and put this thing down.  We
> all sit up straight and repeat, "I will not laugh, I will not laugh"
> and we perform the most constipated version of the William Tell I've
> ever heard.
>
> Oh well, I am off to my Dallas Seminar this weekend.
>
> Harmonically yours,
>
> Robert Bonfiglio
>
> http://www.robertbonfiglio.com
>
>
>
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