The Cabbage Patch

The Cabbage Patch is an archive of the humorous letters sent to the horn list by Professor Cabbage himself. Asterisks denote the truly great work, so if your time here is limited, these are my suggestions. Available major topics include:

About the Cabbage By Cabbage, written especially for this web site! ..........Allergies ..........Bad D ..........Bad Transcriptions ..........Beethoven's second horn trio ..........Bozo on the podium ..........Breaking in a Horn * ..........Bumpogenics and Gig Bags ..........Cabbage's report on the IHS symposium ..........Celtic Kilt Poetry * ..........Chemical Cleaning ..........Circular Breathing ..........Clams from Above ..........Cookie Cutter Performances ..........Corks ..........Does Heat hurt the Horn? ..........Dogs in Music * ..........Edge ..........Eliminating the embouchure ..........Ergonomic Horns ..........Electronics and horn frequencies--2 letters!! ..........Exercise ..........Eye pressure and therapy ..........Feeling Dense ..........Forthcoming Kopprasch Edition ..........Fun Finger Experiment ..........Gender of the Cabbage Q and A ..........Geyer Wrap ..........Green Goo ..........Hair Pressure ..........Handel, valves, clams and sardines ..........Hand Horn ..........Hand-Starting a horn ..........Hans Ahoy! ..........Herr ..........Hinkle horns and Hinting Horns ..........Horn clubs * ..........Horn Digest ..........Horn Enhancer ..........Horn help from Julia Child ..........Horn playing using your right ankle ..........Horn Relationships * ..........Horn Trashing stories ..........Horns Ahoy! ..........Horns in Texas ..........Hooters vs. Bappers ..........How to improve your embouchure ..........Hundred Dollar Horn Tips * ..........Hunting and the horn ..........Imaginative tone color ..........Importance of the Tongue ..........Intonation help ..........Ireland's horn problems ..........King Tut's Trumpets ..........Leutgeb's Classification ..........Losing Weight ..........Mad horn disease ..........Mellophone Elf Poetry, and now a special Limerick! ** ..........Mellophone Toss ..........Metronomes * ..........Mozart 1 Bowings ..........Mouthpiece Bends ..........Mouthpieces are like Sneakers ..........Nasal Dilators ..........Ophicleide Poetry * ..........Overbite and the horn ..........Parforce Horns ..........Pencil Sharpening ..........Physics of a horn submerged in Oreos ..........Pit Bulls ..........Plastic Sousaphones ..........Playing in a pool ..........Playing the Conch ..........Playing with your Mouthpiece ..........Problems with Clean Tonguing ..........Professional and students horns ..........Professional Mutes ..........Projecting the horn ..........Schumann Symphony #3 ..........Sitting or Standing ..........Slide Mellophone ..........Sousa and his Marches ..........Sponge-Worthiness ..........Stuffed Cabbage ..........St. Bridget and empty messages ..........St. Hubert's Day ..........Suspended Trumpets and a joke ..........Tapered Rotors ..........Tennis Ball Effect ..........Tuners ..........Twinkies vs. Oreos ..........Two horns ..........Valve String ..........Vibrato ..........Warming up a cold mellophone ..........Water removal maneuvers ..........What is a Duck's Foot? ..........What is a Hogon-horn? ..........What is an Anglophone? ..........Wilderness and the horn ..........Wisdom Teeth

A Cabbage/horn Glossary to help those not familiar with horn list definitions of terms

There are also numerous short postings, on numerous miscellaneous subjects which are compiled in the Big page of small posts 1 and now, the big page of small posts 2

Here is a poem written ABOUT Cabbage...very entertaining....Cabbagemocky