Funny Story About Concertina Case

[Jeff Stallard]

So I'm biding on this item:

 

It's an antique english hump box. I plan on using it for home storage of my lachenal. After I bid on it, I did some research and discovered the origin of the name. Back in the old days, it just wasn't proper for a wife to pounce on her husband and ride him like a show pony, so she would use a hump box to signal to her husband when she was ready for marital relations. She'd open the lid and place it next to the bed, then he would know. After I learned that bit of trivia, it dawned on me that I'll have a hump box regulating access to my squeezebox. Not funny? Then perhaps you're not aware of the other meaning of squeezebox, made popular in America during the 70s...

[Mark Evans]

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff....a "Hump Box"?

 

You've put a new twist on the role of Kasper I once sang in Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors". The first lines of kasper's comic aria are:

 

"This is my box, This is my box!

"I never travel without my box!"

 

Indeed...

[Jeff Stallard]

Well I didn't bid on it BECAUSE it was a hump box, but because the dimensions are almost ideal, it's a nice match with the concertina, and it's cheap.

[Alan Day]

Now we are into equal equality ,is your wife going to interupt your practicing ?

Sounds like a really good buy to me!!

Al

[bellowbelle]

.........Then perhaps you're not aware of the other meaning of squeezebox, made popular in America during the 70s...

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I'm aware! You might find my Down-Hearted Blues For Concertina Players a bit amusing...

[geoffwright]

I have also sung in Amahl so know about Kaspars Magic Box - He must have been King of Pontefract as he kept liquorice in it.

(He was also as deaf as a post so would probably like concertinas - not very politically correct, I know)

 

Some people's concertina boxes work the opposite way - if the box is in sight, there is no chance of playing camels.

[Mark Evans]

I have also sung in Amahl so know about Kaspars Magic Box - He must have been King of Pontefract as he kept liquorice in it.

(He was also as deaf as a post so would probably like concertinas - not very politically correct, I know)

 

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And let's not forget the beads. "Oh how I love to play with beads, all kinds of beads!

 

Yes, he most certanily would have been a concertina fan! Thinking on it I am sad to say that he (in my mind) would have prefered a German 20 button to EC or AC.

Not a complicated fellow.

 

Some of the other cast members made the connection to "box" and would stand in the wings when I sang it pointing the appropriate location for what they considered a "box" to be. The boy soprano always got the giggles over it. I on the other hand was forced to keep my composure. Misery.