Hi Richard -- on Jun 18 2011 at 00:33, you wrote:  
    
  RW>   DOn't know.  I got that "left handed sewer flute"  
  RW> from PDQ bach.  ARdith would get the reference I'm sure .  
    
  Regretfully, neither the right nor left handed sewer flute has ever been  
  commercially available. It, along with others, are one-offs from Dr.  
  Schickele's warped mind.  
    
  From Wikipedia:  
   Schickele invented a range of rather unusual instruments. The most  
   complicated of these is the Hardart, a variety of tone-generating  
   devices mounted on the frame of an "automat", a coin-operated food  
   dispenser. The automat is used in the Concerto for Horn and Hardart, a  
   play on the name of proprietors Horn & Hardart, who pioneered the North  
   American use of the Automat. Schickele also invented the "dill piccolo"  
   for playing sour notes, the "left-handed sewer flute", the "tromboon",  
   the "lasso d'amore", the double-reed slide music stand, the "tuba  
   mirum", a flexible tube filled with wine, and the "pastaphone", an  
   uncooked tube of manicotti pasta played as a horn. P.D.Q's 1965  
   Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons demonstrated the  
   inherent musical qualities of everyday objects in ways not equally  
   agreeable to all who listen to them.  
    
  But I love his stuff!  
    
  Cheers... Dallas  
    
  --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+  
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