PRACTICAL JOKES IN THE ORCHESTRA.
Andy Andy’s adventure with the trumpet will be remembered. Hardly less amusing experiments are practised in the orchestras of theatres, especially when a play has run its hundred nights and time hangs heavy.
A handful of bluebottle flies inserted within the bass-vial, or the greasing the fiddle-bows to make the instrument play a perpetual mute, may be numbered among them. A little lather put into a cornet will be blown out into soap-bubbles when it is played.