>Helen Cripe wrote:
>
>Yes, coming from fly-over Indiana I've heard lots about harp-is-chords.
>
>Several of my favorites are from a former church secretary who had a lot
>of trouble with putting anything musical in the Sunday bulletins
>correctly. One Sunday the bulletin announced that the choir would sing
>"The Lord My Faithful Shepherd Is Back." During her tenure we also sang
>a lot of "cannons". You don't even want to know what she did with
>"fugue".
At Indiana back in the '70s, all the School of Music programs were
typeset by guys whose musical knowledge was probably zip (although
they did have a graduate assistantship for a musicology student who
checked the programs for accuracy). A good one slipped through the
proofreading cracks when the program listed our player of the tenor
sackbutt, but the "a" was replaced by a "u." We thought it was
hilarious. The Dean did not!
John
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