Comments on: Baroque performers glum as Europe bans gut strings

By: GregS

GregS — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:03:04 +0000

It’s good to know that European bureaucrats can be just as stupid as American ones.

By: Blackfoot

Blackfoot — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:43:28 +0000

@L.C. – you do realize the brass instruments may have a significant amount of lead

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:40:06 +0000

@kimsch: I understand that. I was in the UK from ’94-’98. I and the rest of my family are banned from giving blood. That’s a pity, because I was a regular donor.

As for gut strings, maybe they can go back to cat… they don’t carry Mad Cow or C-J to the best of my knowledge.

Anyway, the ban on gut strings is ridiculous. Every study on C-J has reported on nerve tissue being the conduit. Intestines are not nerve-rich tissue.

By: CJohn

CJohn — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:38:03 +0000

Given the EU’s recent woes, there’s a joke to be made about fiddling while Rome burns (I just can’t quite make it, so I leave it to your imagination).

By: kimsch

kimsch — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:03:08 +0000

My husband and I can’t give blood because we were in Germany during the period from 1980 to 1990 and therefore we might have, as Denny Crane puts it, “the Mad Cow.”

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:21:53 +0000

What will they ban next, String Theory? It is obvious that the EU bureaucrats will never have to worry about coming down with a brain disease.

By: mojo

mojo — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:46:46 +0000

Is there nothing too petty for these loons?

By: KDP

KDP — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:24:29 +0000

When gut strings are outlawed, only outlaws will have gut strings.

By: L. C. Burgundy

L. C. Burgundy — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:28:16 +0000

Crap! Well, it’s back to eating brass instruments for me.