Now this is a bad joke
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:56 am
Johann Sebastian Bach had twenty-one children and wore out three wives. One of J. S. Bach’s lesser known sons was Philipi.
Philipi Bach was stone-dead, tone deaf. He tried and tried his best, but he just couldn’t master the fugue or the canon, to say nothing of motets, gavottes, or passipieds. He couldn’t even jig properly.
He was like a fish out of water at Bach family gatherings. Later in life he married into a very wealthy family of Jews by the last name of Juke who insisted as his integration into their family the two last names be hyphenated with the Jewish name first; after all the Jews were the chosen race. (similar to when Felix Mendelssohn converted to Christianity. See: Wikipedia: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
The Jukes were totally unmusical and couldn’t carry a tune with the help of a pack mule; however, Philipi Bach fit right in. Philipi Bach, himself, never did much to garner acclaim, but one of his great grandsons did become a rather prolific inventor and invented the now famous Juke-Bachs. Unfortunately, while purported to be a musical reproduction unit, it’s never been known to carry a decent tune. Such are the ways of the musically challenged.
Philipi Bach was stone-dead, tone deaf. He tried and tried his best, but he just couldn’t master the fugue or the canon, to say nothing of motets, gavottes, or passipieds. He couldn’t even jig properly.
He was like a fish out of water at Bach family gatherings. Later in life he married into a very wealthy family of Jews by the last name of Juke who insisted as his integration into their family the two last names be hyphenated with the Jewish name first; after all the Jews were the chosen race. (similar to when Felix Mendelssohn converted to Christianity. See: Wikipedia: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)
The Jukes were totally unmusical and couldn’t carry a tune with the help of a pack mule; however, Philipi Bach fit right in. Philipi Bach, himself, never did much to garner acclaim, but one of his great grandsons did become a rather prolific inventor and invented the now famous Juke-Bachs. Unfortunately, while purported to be a musical reproduction unit, it’s never been known to carry a decent tune. Such are the ways of the musically challenged.