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From: etan@tellab1.UUCP (Nate Stelton)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Dropping picks
Message-ID: <661@tellab1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 13:20:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 13:20:04 1985
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Reply-To: etan@tellab1.UUCP (Nate Stelton)
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Summary: 

In article <530@talcott.UUCP> gjk@talcott.UUCP (John) writes:
>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!
 
I remember seeing one of the three stooges saw a cello in half under similar
circumstances -- a prime example of NO TALENT.

                                  -etan