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funtobe had his first Viola Da Gamba concert. even a pessimistic black seeing UFO such as funtobe had to agree that it went ok. it took place in the world most boring city- Hannover Germany. when i compare it to the cello debut from 17 years ago than the gamba one is an astonishing success. allow me to take you back to 1991. before his first cello concert funtobe was a kid in the fifth grade in the ,at the time relatively new school of arts in Tel Aviv. the piece that was chosen for the grand premier was Vivaldi’s 5th cello sonata. 5 hours before the concert funtobe was practicing at home exited indeed about his first cello performance at the “hall of dreams” at school. the “hall of dreams” was by the way a stupid gymnastic hall with a horrible acoustic nothing dreamy about it whatsoever except maybe the clouds hanging from the ceiling. little funtobe had to take a brake from his remarkable practice in order to pee or shit or something of that natural kind. when he got up he somehow managed to slid on the carpet, and the cello slid as well. little funtobe was terrified- he managed to brake the cello’s neck five hours before his first concert. if that is not an omen- than what is?!
a substitute cello was found and funtobe had his debut with Vivaldi’s 5th cello sonata. later in his carrier funtobe broke his cello several times, and the drill of finding a sub cello on the day of the concert became the norm. ( the record was a concert tour in south east asia with 8 concerts with 8 different celli). funtobe also received a VIP certificate as a most valuable customer of the Luthier A. weinstein who had to fix the cello every time. in that respect the gamba debut was quite eventless indeed. is that an omen?…..

funtobe was neglecting his English specking readers for a while. he had good reasons- as you probably know he is busy trying to find sneaky ways to conquer the world!  in any event funtobe is back in germany (where due to global warming it did not rain for the last 7 weeks).  not long ago funtobe had the chance to visit Paris, and in the silly hotel there was a so called “bidet”.  the fact that this anachronistic thing still exist is quite hilarious, but the french- you know. i decided to ask a french friend why do they still have those “bottom cleaning device” in modern hotels in france, and she laughed hysterically and said that bidet’s are used to cleaning one’s feet and not one’s anus. that of course ended in a good old fashion argument. it seems that at least wikepedia agrees with the funtobe’s  but if any of you out there agree with the foot clean device, please be kind enough and let me know asap.