# Music man

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-man/304543>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 19, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-man/304543 "2005-05-19T05:38:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-man/304543/41 "2014-07-15T02:02:14Z")

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> Quoth **NoCoolUserName** :
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> Brass/horn players (who, sure as shooting are reading this thread) have you ever improvised “a full octave higher than the score”?\*

No, but I _have_ improvised a full octave lower than the score. [It did not end well.](http://www.teemings.net/series_1/issue08/christmas.html)

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-man/304543/42 "2014-07-15T02:07:22Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> \*I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by  
> I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.  
> I hope, and I pray, for a Hester to win just one more “A”  
> The sadder-but-wiser girl’s the girl for me.  
> The sadder-but-wiser girl for me. \*

To me, Bud Light is the saddest Budweiser of them all…

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