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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (John)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Dropping picks
Message-ID: <530@talcott.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 16:11:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: talcott.530
Posted: Wed Oct 16 16:11:02 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Oct-85 21:25:50 EDT
References: <786@decwrl.UUCP> <1874@pyuxd.UUCP> <461@mhuxr.UUCP> <102@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard
Lines: 14
Keywords: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Mozart
Summary: Not terribly serious.

In article <102@mit-eddie.UUCP>, nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:
> Once when I saw Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Martin Swope dropped his pick
> in the middle of a piece and couldn't find where it went, so he grabbed
> a matchbook and played the rest of the piece perfectly using the
> matchbook as a pick!  Now that's talent....

No, that's not talent...I'll tell you what talent is:

I once saw Itzhak Perlman drop his bow while playing a Mozart piece.  So he
pulled out a hacksaw and played the rest of the performace perfectly...without
damaging his Stradavarius!
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