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From: SNaru~-online.de (Siegfried Naruhn)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 21:49 +0100
Subject: RE: re- Trivia

Hi BBB and Mattias,

I need help to imagine how it would look to play a harp upside down. As a
non-native I looked once more into my dictionary, but only to be sure what I
knew already: upside down = Oberseite nach unten, verkehrt herum, das Oberste zu
unterst. Excuse me that you have to look now into your German dictionary.

I would like to make my understanding precisely clear. If the upside of a harp
is considered the mouthpiece, then I see two possibilities to play a harp
'upside down'.

1. The mouthpiece holes are averted from the player's face and the player plays
now on the comb bottom, more exactly, he blows and draws on the gap between
cover plate and comb.

2. If this should not be possible, the player has to perform a headstand to play
on the mouthpiece while holding the harp in an unchanged position. With other
words: the player himself is upside down.

Am I right that the latter is meant? This would correspond to the reading of the
sentence: B. Rush plays the harp upside down = he's upside down.

I ask this absolute seriously though like good jokes.

Siegfried