I followed the advice of a Sloane
to cure porcine damper tone.
I'm as happy by it
as a pig in spit
now that the squeal's been brought down to a moan.
The following, from the fifth notebook of P.D.Q. Bach, has long been
overlooked by musical scholars as not pertinent to the interpretation or
perfomermance of music by this or other members of the Bach family. A sloane
in that time was a keyboard musician, usually intinerant and unemployed, and
generally so because of a persistence in playing with one hand on the
keyboard and the other at the tuning pins, as opposed to the standard
deployment of both hands at the keyboard. As can be imagined, sloane music
fell in popularity, but has reappeared in the last hundred years as a form of
manual, menial labor.
Read 'em and weep!
Bill Ballard, RPT "She will slap you, she will kiss you,
NH Chapt, PTG you will fall in love with her"
from a promotional t-shirt
for Kendrick rock'n'roll
amps. (YUK)
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