Dummkopf Trumpf is a tasteless clod with a tin ear.

Sniveled the doofus (13 June 2025): "I could have been a flutist," after an aptitude test apparently revealed he was "brilliant" at music. He bleated that he could have been an "incredible musician," if he'd taken a different path.

Mozart said the only worse than a flute are two flutes.

And note the young Dummkopf Trumpf was given an aptitude test for a musical instrument, not machinist tools as recently advocated by US Secretary of the Uneducated uber-wealthy heiress Linda McMahon.

Teen idol Elvis Presley was playing the guitar on TV in the 1950s.The morbidly obese oligarch was approximately seventeen years old when the Beatles exploded on to America and even more youngsters wanted to learn and play the guitar. Maybe the drums, too, but I'm not certain. Ringo Starr was certainly able and competent, but no Keith Moon or Charlie Rich.

And while we appreciate the flutes and fifes in Beethoven's martial and immortal Seventh Symphony in A, the Grand Maestro never composed a flute symphony as he did for the piano and violin.

We shall be enjoying that tonight over a chukka of bridge.

Dummkopf Trumpf is the "Anti-Beethoven."

And more importantly, thanks for the memories Dolly Parton.