[Sca-cooks] the True Story of the Doumbek

[Mark Calderwood]

At 00:02 6/02/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Giles commented:
>>Period joke (12th century Andalusian)
>>Q: What's the difference between God and a doumbek player?
>>
>>A: God doesn't _think_ he can play the doumbek.
>Ok, perhaps I'm gullible. But is this *really* a 12th century Andalusian
>joke? Any further documentation?
>I really would like to know this before I put it in my drums-msg file...

Well, it's in a book of period Islamic anecdotes and humour translated and
edited by Prof Bernard Lewis, I think called "Islam through private writings".

Giles