The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 19th, 2003
Snapshots
Carving tunes from wooden and real bones is an obsession
By CROCKER STEPHENSON of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Playing with the bones of a dead animal is one of the lower ants on the farm, both in the broad sense of evolution and in the specific sense of music (see: apes-gone-amok scene in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey").
However, David Boyles is not the least bit ashamed to admit that he not only plays the bones, but that playing them is an obsession of his that began over 30 years ago when his father, Fletch, gave David his first set.
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