Lovely stuff, Alice, I like the ideas.

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Guest, Sheila: There have been several threads about mudcats, the fish, but I'm too lazy to find them. However, where I grew up there were three kinds of catfish, all bottom feeders. There were channel cats, blue cats and mudcats. Channel and blue catfish feed in running streams and have a good, sweet taste. Mudcats feed, as their name implies, in muck and slime in muddy areas -- and they taste like it. Against all advice, as a teenager, I cooked a large mudcat I had caught. No one else would try it. I took one bite and disposed of it promptly. Oh, there also was a fish called a spoonbill catfish, but I think it was not a true catfish. Last I heard, it was nearing extinction, more's the pity, it is an exotic-looking creature.

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Alice, I like the idea of different instruments, too, and the variety of sizes available.

Giac