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DS has brought home a fricking dood...

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ShowOfHands · 23/11/2019 11:54

... which is a level of hell 3 above a recorder. Because I can't play it!

DS has begged me to play a tune to him (on a recorder, no problem). I can't make a single sound. It's been three days. Not a note. I've watched tutorials, googled, nothing, de rien, nada...

Help me play the bloody thing before I throw it out the window!

DS, DD and DH can all make a sound BTW. It's just me.

OP posts:
ErrolTheDragon · 23/11/2019 19:56

Your DS will just have to learn to play it himself.
It's quite nice for a kid to be able to do something mummy can't, I'm sure DD stuck with the flute initially because she could get a nice sound out of it and I couldn't get a squeak.Grin

PerkingFaintly · 23/11/2019 20:00

Wnbrkuchure

But still helpful, HeronLanyon.Grin

I was looking at "ombiture" and thinking, "I know that's right-not-right, but what the hell should it actually be?"

Guess I had to develop my embouchure... 🎶

PerkingFaintly · 23/11/2019 20:42

I once had a whim and I had to obey it
To buy mum a dood from a second-hand shop.
I polished it up and I asked her to play it
In spite of the neighbours, who begged her to stop.

To sound that dood, she had to develop her embouchure.
She found that dood was a bit of devil to play.

So artfully long, to give you a song,
A beautiful song, so rich and... wrong.

Oh the hours she had spend before she mastered it in the end.

But that was yesterday, and just today
She looked in the usual place.
There was the case, but the dood itself was missing.

Oh where can it have gone?
Haven't you, hasn't anyone seen her dood?
Oh where can it have gone?
Oh what a blow! Now she knows, she's unable to play her allegro.

Who swiped that dood?
I bet you a quid, somebody did!

Knowing she'd found a concerto and wanted to play it
Afraid of her talent at playing the dood.
For early today to her utter dismay
It had vanished away and now cannot be viewed.

She's lost that dood. She knows she was using it yesterday.
She's lost that dood, lost that dood, found that dood... remo'ed.

There's not much hope of getting it back,
Though she'd willingly play a reward.

She knows some hearty folks whose party joke's
Pretending to dance around nude.
Come away! Come away!
Was it one of them took it away?

Will you kindly return that dood? Where is the devil who pinched her dood?
I shall tell the Police I want my mum's dood back
She misses its music more and more and more
Without that dood she's feeling sad and so low mood

She found a concerto and wanted to play it,
Displaying her talent at playing the dood
But early today to her utter dismay it had totally vanished away

She practised the dood, and she wanted to play it but somebody took it away.
She practised the dood and was longing to play it but somebody took it away.

Our neighbour's asleep in his bed
She'll soon make him wish he were dead
She'll try the recorder instead!

HeronLanyon · 23/11/2019 22:42

perking I used to play the oboe so had a great omb but don’t think I’ve ever know how to spell it. Always pronounced it with another r. Like om-brochure. Grin

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 23/11/2019 22:53

@thetardis
hand up who else thought op's ds had just come out

Grin Not just you, I totally did too lol. Now off to read the thread properly to see what it actually means Grin
ErrolTheDragon · 23/11/2019 23:52

Bravo, perking!Grin

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