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From: mikel@bmcg.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Beethovan's 9th
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 19:38:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 19:38:37 1984
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[Row, row, row your bits, gently down the stream...]

This is a retelling of a joke that I originally posted with changes that were
mailed to me by Doug Mulholland at watdcsu.  I like his version better!

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During a portion of Beethovan's Ninth Symphony in which there are no bass
violin parts, one of the bassists passes a bottle of scotch around.

To remind himself that the basses usually required an extra cue towards the
end of the symphony, the conductor would fasten a piece of string around the
page of the score before the bass cue.

As the basses grew more and more inebriated, two of them fell asleep.  The
conductor grew quite nervous (he was very concerned about the pitch) because
it was the bottom of the ninth; the score was tied and there were two out with
the basses loaded.


Mike Lesher
Burroughs ASG, San Diego, CA.
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