Hans P offered

> better leave the horn alone, put it on the wall or 
> in the shrank, use it for practising at home occasionally,

David G wondered
in the *shrank* ???  What's a shrank?  Help!

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David, please forgive Hans if he did not offer an idiomatic 
translation.  He of course meant shrink, which is the proper 
translation of Psychoanalytiker.  Some horns are so precious 
that players only play them while undergoing therapy.  Although
it is well known that Freud wrote about the problems of horn
players (The horn and its discontents), it is not so widely known
that he experimented with horn design.  Although few of them
were produced, the Sigmund model, with its distinctive
shrink wrap, is still much sought after by collectors.

Gotta go,
Cabbage
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