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  • February 22, 2012 at 5:31 pm #104412
    Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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    I just tried it. I can’t. I’m a complete failure. I put a lunch bag on my right hand and started playing Ballade (Salzedo), and the bag did not rip or tear at all, not even playing an aeolian flux. Boy, it must be true. Now, just imagine if you had a body-sized bag.

    February 22, 2012 at 6:02 pm #104413
    kay-lister
    Member

    Try a plastic grocery bag – they hardly make it

    February 23, 2012 at 1:08 am #104414
    kreig-kitts
    Member

    How did you play your way into it in the first place?

    February 23, 2012 at 4:53 am #104415
    adam-b-harris
    Participant

    Isn’t it supposed to be a wet paper bag?

    February 23, 2012 at 1:22 pm #104416
    andee-craig
    Participant

    I don’t understand the point of this? Makes me think of playing with mittens on!

    February 24, 2012 at 4:22 pm #104417
    Saul Davis Zlatkovski
    Participant

    A wet paper bag would be easier as it would tear. It is a favorite condemnation used by musicians to say that so-and-so could not play their way out of a (wet) paper bag. Wet implying that it should be easy, yet they cannot do it. It’s like saying that someone cannot play even with their eyes open.

    February 24, 2012 at 8:38 pm #104418
    jennifer-buehler
    Member

    We all know it’s much easier to play with our eyes closed.

    February 25, 2012 at 3:33 pm #104419
    jimmy-h
    Participant

    Some one told

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