Mine Shaft Blues

Talk about a lower register!

Tearing out front teeth

What do you get when you drop a grand piano down a mine shaft?

A flat minor.

 

 


Graphic: “She Tries To Tear All Its Front Teeth Out With Her Bare Hands” From Cobb’s Bill of Fare, by Irvin S. Cobb, Illustrated by Peter Newell and James Preston; New York: George H. Doran Company, 1913; pp. 45-80.

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