Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:45:38 -0700, John Ames wrote:

On 15 Mar 2025 06:49:16 GMT rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

My flutes produce overtones I can't hear. The cat can and she is not
pleased. She doesn't mind the banjo and I'm not going to tell her that
cat skin was prized for mountain banjos.

 
My dad attempted to pick up the oboe, briefly. The family dog put paid
to that notion.

In grade school music class I said 'cornet' but the music teacher heard
'clarinet'. I had about 3 weeks of clarinet before switching to flute.
That was my experience with reed instruments. I tended to gnaw on the
reed.

Luckily even in grade school if I wanted to play a flute I'd play a goddam
flute with no remarks from the peanut gallery. I put it aside for decades,
preferring stringed instruments, but an interest in tin whistle for Irish
tunes led my to Irish flutes (wooden simple-system) and eventually to a
Boehm system again.