In polite society, a boner is a malapropism [see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism].
But your story's great.
Dale

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicholas Bunning" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: Harp-is-chords and other boners


> What's a boner?  I've never heard  the word used in the context of 
> harpsichords before...
>
> Is a boner is a story....?  If so, the boner I enjoyed was the one  where 
> Thomas Goff, after a weekend with Violet Gordon Woodhouse, where  she 
> introduced him to the clavichord, delcared he was going to give up  his 
> career as a barrister, and devote his life to making clavichords.   As a 
> member of the Royal Family it was odd for him to look into  carpentry 
> classes, but the found a woodworking class at a college in  London.  Upon 
> meeting his new teacher, a Mr John Cobby, the students  were asked what 
> they proposed to make in the class.  Most of them told  of their ambitions 
> to make milk-bottle-holders and the like....   Goff  said, "I've come here 
> to learn to make a Clavichord" (in his hooty  upper-crust accent...  to 
> which Cobby replied "I've been waiting all  my life to hear someone say 
> that!"     Together they made many superb  instruments....   which were in 
> their day the Gold Standard of early  keyboard instruments.
>
> Mmmm  Boner
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Hendrik Broekman wrote:
>
>> Many years ago, on another college station in the supposedly
>> civilized northeast, the Abalone Adagio was announced one memorable
>> morning.  The lad may have been from the left coast where, I am told,
>> they consume such things.
>> [....] 


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