Herman by Jim Unger for November 05, 2021

Or swordplay

Move over, Uto Ughi.

“Hey Doc, will I be able to play the piano when this heals?”

If I was you Mac, I wouldn’t try anything heavier than an harmonica…

What about sword-swallowing?

Sign him up for the Philharmonic!

he could fiddle his way through it!

A little less forte next time.

The violin did manage to cut out a piece of him

So cut that out!

He was playing The Flight of The Bumblebee and lost control.

I’m actually kind of impressed. I wouldn’t have thought that was possible.

Was this a self-inflicted wound? Did it occur while he was practicing?

Or did someone else do it? Was it a matter of self-defense (of their ears/hearing)?

It appears that he has suffered an attack of extreme violins!

He aWas playing the Flight of the Bumblebee and got carried away…

try a cello

I’ve heard about having bow legs but this …?

My doctor was a friend of Unger’s. He has a lot of original comics in his office.

Maybe he was fiddling around…

I’m pretty good at judging relative speed and when I watched a performance of Khachaturian’s Second Symphony it looked like the tip of the bow was moving over 100 miles per hour

Wrong kind of bow?

He was a little sharp.

Another off color cartoon?! Sigh!

He was trying to expand his act with a variation of the old needle through the arm trick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czElKoDQbGQ&t=2s