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From: Ken Ficara
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 19:41:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Little Wind is not Little Walter

one also presumes these were strictly outdoor engagements...

At 10:18 -0600 1/19/98, Will Jennings wrote:
>Le Petomaine played 'music' out of his ass.
>He'd suffered a swimming accident in his youth which left him with a
>distended colon. He learned to take on air, store it, and using controlled
>'breathing' and a sphincter able to respond to his 'ear', was able to play
>many popular tunes of the day. He also extinguished candles from a
>distance of 5 meters. He outdrew Sarah Bernhardt.
>
>One presumes he charted his own solos, but improved the ocassional
>SBD.
>
>- -wjj
>
>
>------------------------------

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