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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 17 Mar 2025 21:16:37 GMT
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:45:38 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> On 15 Mar 2025 06:49:16 GMT rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> My flutes produce overtones I can't hear. The cat can and she is not
>> pleased. She doesn't mind the banjo and I'm not going to tell her that
>> cat skin was prized for mountain banjos.
> 
> My dad attempted to pick up the oboe, briefly. The family dog put paid
> to that notion.

In grade school music class I said 'cornet' but the music teacher heard 
'clarinet'. I had about 3 weeks of clarinet before switching to flute. 
That was my experience with reed instruments. I tended to gnaw on the 
reed. 

Luckily even in grade school if I wanted to play a flute I'd play a goddam 
flute with no remarks from the peanut gallery. I put it aside for decades, 
preferring stringed instruments, but an interest in tin whistle for Irish 
tunes led my to Irish flutes (wooden simple-system) and eventually to a 
Boehm system again.