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My mom and the unsubtle instrument
Oct. 9th, 2007 10:55 pmMy parents are not letter-writers and they are not big on e-mail. They like best to visit, and they make do with phone calls.
But they also send me their synagogue's monthly newsletter. They've started channeling Dad's parents who were involved in their own synagogue for mostly social reasons, I suspect, because I have a memory of Grandma serving ham at Passover. So I read the newsletter as a way to keep up with some things in their life.
And this month's issue has the following interesting statement: "Thank you to [some guy] and [my mom] for your Shofar blowing." A shofar is a horn (both meanings - it's an instrument made from an animal's horn). I knew my mom had bought one and was trying to learn to play it, but now it seems she is willing to play in public during the High Holy Days services. I'll have to call and congratulate her next time I'm home at a reasonable hour.
And now I'm imagining my mom at the next recital. How about a duet for shofar and theramin?
Oh, no, better yet! Have any annoying neighbors who play their stereos too loudly in the middle of the night? Just hire my mom to come over in the middle of the day (when said neighbors are sleeping) and blast them into Timbuktu. Hmm, I seem to have a neighbor with an extremely loud bird in their back yard. I could get my mom to call back to it whenever it called out (which often happens when I walk by).
Well, see, the shofar is an unsubtle instrument. I would look for a podcast of someone playing one, but I don't particularly want to. Imagine a tuba or bugle which plays only two notes. Totally awesome for calling in the new year, but rarely seen otherwise.
But they also send me their synagogue's monthly newsletter. They've started channeling Dad's parents who were involved in their own synagogue for mostly social reasons, I suspect, because I have a memory of Grandma serving ham at Passover. So I read the newsletter as a way to keep up with some things in their life.
And this month's issue has the following interesting statement: "Thank you to [some guy] and [my mom] for your Shofar blowing." A shofar is a horn (both meanings - it's an instrument made from an animal's horn). I knew my mom had bought one and was trying to learn to play it, but now it seems she is willing to play in public during the High Holy Days services. I'll have to call and congratulate her next time I'm home at a reasonable hour.
And now I'm imagining my mom at the next recital. How about a duet for shofar and theramin?
Oh, no, better yet! Have any annoying neighbors who play their stereos too loudly in the middle of the night? Just hire my mom to come over in the middle of the day (when said neighbors are sleeping) and blast them into Timbuktu. Hmm, I seem to have a neighbor with an extremely loud bird in their back yard. I could get my mom to call back to it whenever it called out (which often happens when I walk by).
Well, see, the shofar is an unsubtle instrument. I would look for a podcast of someone playing one, but I don't particularly want to. Imagine a tuba or bugle which plays only two notes. Totally awesome for calling in the new year, but rarely seen otherwise.