Cost of harping

>From a recent E-Mail from my parents, recently returned from a college reunion:

> We sat with a group of musicians, one of whom
> has become an excellent harpist in her later years. She
> said after she had taken lessons for five years it was time
> to get her own harp. Her husband asked what this was going
> to cost, and she said about $20,000. He said that is about
> the cost of a car, and she said "Oh, that makes it seem lots
> more reasonable." I said "Yes, but what can you do in the
> back seat of a harp?"

I figure this group will probably get a chuckle out of that one.

• John C. Bunnell
• JCBunnell at sff.net

 "You'll never grow old, and you'll never grow poor,   If you look to the rainbow beyond the next moor."

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