I found a similar one, with even more hair, when searching Google awhile back -- I don't remember what I was searching for. I think it might have been me testing Google's new image search and I wanted to see if I could find more pics of your green-enamel Buescher straight alto.
I love the pic, tho. Too bad you're not playing that alto in that pic!
Reminds me of something.
There used to be an absolutely excellent show called "Firefly." One of the characters was a guy named
Ron Glass ("Barney Miller"). Anyhow, in most of the show, his hair was like
this. Tied back and tidy.
At one point in the show, he's (Rev. Book) tying up his hair after a workout (or something) and his hair looks like
this, completely freaking out another character (River). Another character comes by to see what's all the fuss (Zoe). This leads to the following exchange:
Book: "River, please, why don't you come on out?"
River: "No! Cant. Too much hair."
...
Zoe: River, honey, hes putting the hair away now."
River: doesn't matter. Itll still be there
waiting.
(I'm sorry; I can't find a YouTube link.)
I used the "he's putting the hair away now" comment with a coworker who generally had his hair tied up in a ponytail decided to let it all loose.
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I may have related this story before, but my mom has said that most of the pictures of me prior to, oh, 1989ish had been destroyed. I do have memories of things before 1989, but I have no photographic evidence. Hmmm.