Shofar!!!!!

[C2H5OH]

Our Jewish members will all know what this is, but I, an atheist lapsed Catholic, had never heard of them. A few months ago, I read about them. The article I read said you blow them like a bugle. I used to be able to play any bugle call you care to name, on a bugle, trumpet, or cornet.

So, I found out you can buy them from Amazon, and I had some extra SSI money that month (SSI gets upset if you don't spend the money they give you), so I bought one. It turns out you need teeth, too, to play them properly. They yanked all my teeth before they irradiated me for the throat cancer, so no teeth. I bought a cheap Chinese military bugle at the same time. You need teeth to play a bugle properly, too. I won't abuse you all with a recording of my bad playing. I can briefly blow some good notes on my shofar, but no Jewish congregation will EVER have me blow shofar for them.

Anyway, here's some GOOD Shofar blowing. 8 hours of it. It doesn't say, but I'm guessing that this was probably done on Yom Kippur. The videos I found of Fundy Xtians pretending to do it for whatever idiotic 'religious' reason they thought was good, were as bad as mine. At least I don't pretend that I'm doing it for made-up religious reasons.

I did get the neighbors across the street to yell at me to 'Stop blowing that fucking horn', when I first tried to play it, though.

[Jaglavak]

I have a vuvuzela, does that count?

[C2H5OH]

We should form a banned band!

[Detroit Hoser]

Anyone into musical theater knows the very first notes of Godspell come from a Shofar. Maybe. It's right there in the movie.

[Derleth]

When asked how the new horn player was working out, the rabbi said "Shofar, so good."

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by Detroit Hoser

Anyone into musical theater knows the very first notes of Godspell come from a Shofar. Maybe. It's right there in the movie.

I just looked at the opening scene from the movie. He had one in his hand, but he never actually played it. And listening to the music, it was never in there.

They may do that in the theater version, but I've never seen that. It would be good theater, though. A Shofar note, followed by the rest of that scene, would be awesome.

[Detroit Hoser]

It's the first track of the soundtrack from the original Broadway cast, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord." My sister played that fucking album so much she wore the grooves all the way down to the basement tile floor.