Wednesday, October 12, 2011

PLAYING THE ELEPHANT



Mark put on some Jazz music one evening to listen to while going about the kitchen.


Joey: Who's that?
Mark: Duke Ellington. (already smiling, pleased that she seem to be taking a liking a jazz)
Joey: He's playing the elephant!
Mark: (pausing for a moment) Huh?
Joey: Yeah, the man, he plays the elephant!
Mark:  (after thinking on it) Oh,  oh, oh! You mean the saxophone!


Please recall to your mind the DISNEY movies TARZAN & DUMBO. In TARZAN, during the trashing the camp sequence, TANTOR uses a funnel and makes music. (he sounds like a whole range of horns, from Tubas to trumpets, depending on how he scrunches up his trunk.) In DUMBO, during the pink elephants sequence, there is a part where their trunks also turn into trumpets. 


When Joey hears any part of the horn section, she sees elephants.
She wants to play the elephant too!

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