Horn of Prays

1) All tubes especially the 1st, & 3rd valve slides plus the tuning crook

are to be crimped, crooked or rounded downward like the tubes of a

French horn thus the reason for putting the letter C for Crumpet. Bore

is to be medium.

Model Name: CRUMPET


2) Theme: MELLOW YELLOW. The sound will be mellow because of

the rounded tubes and the color will be of yellow brass, clear lacquer

with even a very slight hint of yellow and red in the color to make it

more of a sunshine color rather than the color of a lemon.

3. `Twas in the days of Aladdin when the genies ruled the world that

mass communication, transportation and production were first born.

Nay, no buses or private cars like today – WE made do with good,

old-fashioned carpets like our parents and grandparents did. Why, I

remember when we had the great famine, that my entire family

climbed aboard the trustworthy U.C.L.A., the United Carpet for

Long-distance Air-travelers. We were tempted to travel via the

Understanding Foreign Origin (UFO), but we were a little skeptical of

their reliability.

My grandfather remembered the good old days when the carpet

doubled as a shawl or afghan in addition to the flying seat, but I

guess they don’t do that any more.

When we arrived in merry old England, we were served a most

unusual food for our uncultured palates, which was called

“Crumpets”. The crumpets were mellow yellow, spongy muffins which

were a delight for our famished bodies.

In England, there were none of the single flying carpets like they used

to have. As a matter of fact, Grandpa said that when he saw a carpet

he thought it had been one of the flying type, but he couldn’t get it to

fly! He could wear it, sure enough, but flying was another story.

Grandpa told me how he tried cajoling the little old (it wasn’t REALLY

that old) carpet to fly, but to no avail. Saddened, he drowned his

sorrow in the crumpets and was saying to himself “Crumpet, Crumpet,

Crumpet” when he suddenly was struck by a thought! Maybe if I

played some Trumpet music, I could persuade the carpet to

subconsciously remember its anti-gravity ability.

He started playing a little ditty on his trumpet from the old country

and thought he saw a quiver. A little more passion and he excitedly saw

some REAL movement! After playing some new Olde English tunes he had

recently learned, he encountered success at last – the little carpet that

COULD!

Well the rest is history… Gramps was so excited by his success that he

succeeded in starting his own carpet flying service you might have

heard of. It’s called BBC . No one else knew that it stood for “Building

Better Crumpets”, not even his cousin the Real Estate mogul, Donald

Crumpet.

Which all goes to show, that a Crumpet’s succulent taste combined

with a Trumpet’s tooting Mellow Yellow sounds can make our

imagination, or even an old carpet soar above any cloud in the sky.

The message of this story is that a flight of fantasy, whether real or

imagined, can assist us in opening our minds and energies in order to

find our way through life’s travails.

The Mellow Yellow theme is to remind us of two important factors that

can help us get through even some of life’s most trying tribulations:

(1) To be able to maintain an even mental keel, without being

overwhelmed or depressed; and

(2) To see that there is a plan in the world – for just as the sun

rises and every day without fail, so too, we must be able to see the

beauty that exists all around us.

I live in the Middle East and we are unfortunately, surrounded, with

acts of horrific terror which we need to put into perspective so that we

can lead our lives with some semblance of order. Children murdered

in a pizza shop, parents butchered in the Twin Towers, US forces in

Iraq, are all indicators of what we are all facing. It is important to see

the human dimension, the families missing a parent (or two), the

orphaned children who are left to survive in a world they (,and we,

)cannot understand. We must be strong, we must be brave and most

of all, we need to have an approach to life.

I believe that with a synthesis of (1) marveling at G-d's beautiful

creations (ie, the sun's Yellow), and (2) realizing that we ALL have

what to be thankful for - on a DAILY basis, (ie. Mellow), that we can

deal with whatever life happens to throw our way. This is not just with

regards to atrocities, but rather is an approach to anyone who goes

through a difficult time.

(4) Why should I win? By outlining the Mellow Yellow message, by

reading the ideass of the others in the Forum, I feel as if in a certain

way, I have already won. Yes, one of us will actually win the very

generous prize, yet by sharing our thoughts and feelings in this

contest, I can't help but feel that in a certain way, we are ALL winners

today.


Chaim Morgulis