Hi Richard -- on Jun 18 2011 at 00:33, you wrote:   
      
   RW>   DOn't know.  I got that "left handed sewer flute"   
   RW> from PDQ bach.  ARdith would get the reference I'm sure .   
      
   Regretfully, neither the right nor left handed sewer flute has ever been   
   commercially available. It, along with others, are one-offs from Dr.   
   Schickele's warped mind.   
      
   From Wikipedia:   
    Schickele invented a range of rather unusual instruments. The most   
    complicated of these is the Hardart, a variety of tone-generating   
    devices mounted on the frame of an "automat", a coin-operated food   
    dispenser. The automat is used in the Concerto for Horn and Hardart, a   
    play on the name of proprietors Horn & Hardart, who pioneered the North   
    American use of the Automat. Schickele also invented the "dill piccolo"   
    for playing sour notes, the "left-handed sewer flute", the "tromboon",   
    the "lasso d'amore", the double-reed slide music stand, the "tuba   
    mirum", a flexible tube filled with wine, and the "pastaphone", an   
    uncooked tube of manicotti pasta played as a horn. P.D.Q's 1965   
    Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons demonstrated the   
    inherent musical qualities of everyday objects in ways not equally   
    agreeable to all who listen to them.   
      
   But I love his stuff!   
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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