hautboy=ho boy=oboe=hobo?

[Ed Keer]

Reminds me of a "band" joke:

How do you tune two oboes?
Shoot one of them!

Of course I won't be trying to make it as a clown on
this one.

Ed

> It has been suggested -- in seriousness! -- that the
> word "hobo" comes from
> wandering oboeists. There are also the Spanish and
> Japanese origin
> theories, etc., etc.
>
> -- Doug Wilson

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