Ed Margerum wrote: > At 9:57 PM -0800 12/14/03, Vance Wood wrote: >> >>> Hi Bill: >>> >>> Freud said it best: "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". I was once >>> told >>> that the rose was to keep rats from nesting in the Lute. I suppose >>> that >>> makes about as much sense or nonsense depending on which side of the >>debate >> > you happen to stand. > > A rat in a lute isn't impossible. A brass instrument repairman I > know was recently asked to repair a tuba. He found the problem, a > blockage caused by a desiccated rat. > > Ed Margerum > I don't think a rat would have any trouble chewing through a rosette, so I doubt that's the explanation. Playing one's lute daily would probably prevent rats from nesting.
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