Hey Spaw, keep it down until we get the patent!

Now here is the ultimate GAS sufferer's downfall. Not long ago I was sent "The Woodwind & Brasswind International Catalog". In it is a gadget called a "Jim Brock Sax". The body is made of bamboo and it is fingered like a recorder. However it has a saxaphone mouthpiece. It only costs $49 US dollars. I can't bring myself to throw the catalog away, and (burp) I feel an attack of GAS come on every time I look at it. It is downright instrument pornography!

I looked into an octave guitar at Lark some time ago and found two things wrong with them (Lark, that is). First of all, they seemed reluctant to give me any information on the instrument besides what was at the site. For example I asked if one could use normal guitar strings on it (cut down to size) and they answered me that they carry fine strings for the instrument. The other thing was their return policy. It was pretty draconic for a mail-order firm. This was more than a year ago and things might have changed by now.

Murray