DaveCon 2002
What's the Deal with AFLers and Giant Trip Reports?
Helen's Huge, Massive, Big Honkin' Trip Report
by Helen P. Read
Pictures, Page 5
The Metropolotan
Museum of Art
An entire wall of Roman busts; that's maybe a third of them in the picture.
The entry to an ancient Egyptian palace. There are two of these things, flanking the doorway, but the shot I took of both of them together didn't really turn out.
A couple of wall panels from the palace. These go all the way around a large room in the museum, with some breaks and gaps where panels are broken or missing. I must have been gaping as I took it all in, because a museum staffer came up to me and said "Cool, huh?"
Slit-gongs, carved from logs. Musical notes are produced by striking the slit with a stick. The large one in the foreground is a good 12 or 15 feet tall.
Valveless horns.
Look at how tight the wrap is on that one! It must have been a bitch to play, with so much resistance from the tight turns.
Two piston valves and a set of crooks. Gotta love it.
A pair of horns made of ceramic. The explanatory card said they were meant primarily as decoration, but the one on the left was identified as horn in D, which rather implies that someone played it (why else would they care what key it's in?)
A non-European horn, not sure where it's from (I was seriously out of time by then).