Neat! So glad you found it a home with someone that appreciates the instrument.
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My brother in law is a great musician (seriously, he went to Juilliard FFS). Among many things, he’s quite proficient at trombone. As he likes to say, never leave one in your car with the doors unlocked otherwise you’ll end up with 4 more by the time you get back.
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I was just reading about artificial flavors today. In a lot of cases the first popular artificial fruit flavorings were made to resemble the variety that was commonly available at the time, but isn’t necessarily anymore. Particularly banana flavor, which tastes like Gros Michel bananas but the world moved on to Cavendish bananas because they are resistant to the “Panama Disease” fungal infection.
Artificial grape flavoring reportedly tastes fairly similar to Concord grapes (which are used mostly for jam, juice, candy and kosher wine, but aren’t good table grapes because of the pits). The flavoring is mostly methyl anthranilate, which actually is in Concord grapes but they didn’t know it at the time and it was extracted from orange blossoms originally…
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Same goes for the always-at-hand measurement “tool” (if suitable, of course) which is, quite conveniently, not far from the action.
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It’s missing this.
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That made me giggle so hard I got the hiccups!
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It delights me no end that the Untitled Goose has become a queer icon.
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