On or about 05-12-10 23:26, Ardith Hinton allegedly uttered "Exit Call" to
James Bradley:

 JB>  When you are called to the "coda", the song (night out)
 JB>  is about to end.

 AH> Thankyou, you've been a wonderful audience, we're outta
 AH> here....  ;-)

L!!! "Don't forget to tip your waitresses."

 AH>  P.S.

 AH>           The coda isn't necessarily short & sweet.  One of the numbers
 AH> we are working on in the community band has a coda which is 1
 AH> 1/2 pages long.  Yes, I am being picky here!  I think
 AH> you'll see why later... [chuckle].

Like an old school chum, the constabulary insisted he not ride his "Take me
home" horse after a night at the tavern, he tried the trip on his lawn tractor.
Because his farm - hence his bed - was some distance from the center of town,
across a *bridge*   on a provincial hi-way, and RIGHT past the front
door of the RCMP regional office... His song was over before he got halfway
through the coda too often.

 JB>  Not the caboose "end". *8-0


 AH>           Ah, the conclusion of the coda?  To me a caboose is a rail
 AH> car added to the rear end of a train.  The caboose is different
 AH> from all the other cars. With luck you'll see a man sitting
 AH> there who will wave at the kids & the young at heart who
 AH> wave at him.  But the coda is different from the rest of
 AH> the song too.  That's where the would-be screech trumpeters
 AH> (for example) take the last few notes up an octave, without
 AH> regard for the agony they may be inflicting on the clarinet
 AH> section.  Either way there's some sort of parting
 AH> ritual....  :-)

Well, I guess the caboose is the last to arrive at the destination, but I am
again caught talking in riddles. (Have you noticed I'm bratty that way? B-)
I'll dismiss the photographs I've seen where a construct will install a caboose
directly behind the engine but like regular assumptions, I was inferring to the
first part of a "carcass" to hit the bedspread when calling it 'the caboose
"end"'. 



 JB>  When the elder Hintons find it's time to "coda" the
 JB>  night, they get in their carriage.


 AH>           Okay.  But as a former teacher & as a parent living life in
 AH> the slow lane, I break the task into smaller steps.  First I
 AH> warn Nora that we're about to leave.  I allow her a few minutes to get
 AH> used to the idea.  I may also help her put on her splint &
 AH> shoes.  Then I ask whether she needs to use the toilet
 AH> before we depart.  Then we have to get out of the place.
 AH> If there are stairs, Dallas & I will have to assist her in
 AH> getting down just as we did when she was going up.  If
 AH> we've brought the wheelchair along & if we're not within
 AH> walking distance of home, it will take us another five
 AH> minutes or so to strap down the wheelchair etc. before we
 AH> can drive away.  And as a student of language I know "coda"
 AH> is more accurately translated as the "tail" rather than the
 AH> "end".  The end is where you see a thin line & a fat line
 AH> parallel to each other....  :-))

The "beginning of the end", is precisely the time-line I was
trying to impart.

 JB>  When Nora's had enough of this.... 


 AH>           It will also be awhile before we can drive away... [wry
 AH> grin].

I forget the Italian term for a pause in music, (I can only rack my brain for
one indication for one, despite your recalling six.) but it would seem Nora is
allotted one before you get on with the phrases/phases that finish "the
piece"/night. 


... James
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