Monday, March 12, 2007

You always take a swimming organist on expeditions

Into the jungle:

LONDON, March 12 A team of British scientists preparing for an expedition into the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia is seeking a church organist to assist with the mission.

The team, led by accomplished adventurer John Blashford-Snell, plan to deliver a pedal organ to the isolated Ojaki community as a means of persuading the natives to help them reach a remote site where a meteorite landed, The Times of London reported Monday.

The organist should be fit enough to catch a bus and it would be very nice if he or she could swim, Blashford-Snell said. The organist will also share in paying the costs for the trip, nearly $4,000. The team said the locals asked for an organ to be installed in their newly built church in exchange for their assistance, The Times said. The team will also install a clean water supply and offer medical services to the locals.

The research team hopes to recover a portion of the meteorite, which is thought to have landed 5,000 to 30,000 years ago.

The organist might want to consider he could be part of the trade
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for a very expensive rock....
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2 comments:

Steve Bates said...

The organist might want to consider he could be part of the trade... ellroon

He... or she. The first likely candidate that came to my mind is a woman I knew decades ago, an organ builder and organist who traveled around Mexico restoring old 17th- and 18th-century church organs in small towns to playing condition. I've lost touch with her (the last I heard from her, she was living in Mexico City), but she is certainly right for this gig.

ellroon said...

Oh pffft! I was carefully typing she/he/it (say that fast) and got bored.

/pout I can't get away with anything! (except for really bad sentence structure, misspellings, misuse of that or which, less or fewer....)