malletgirl
Newbie
they call me the mallet section leader
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Post by malletgirl on May 1, 2009 18:31:57 GMT -5
As far as I know, I'm the only person in my band who's ever gotten injured-at least recently.
At a competition last season, I was heading up to the top of the bleachers to sit with friends and watch the rest of the show-about halfway there, my thigh bumped into one of the benches and I got five splinters in my leg (wooden stands, and I still don't know how, since the fabric of the band pants I have is really thick).
Got to my seat and managed to pull most of them out except one-long story short, I had to have surgery to get that splinter removed and the rest of the other splinters I thought I'd gotten out (nope-only managed to get half of them out).
The only perk is that I've got a cool-looking scar now and that whenever the BD talks about injuries in band, I'm the prime example.
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Post by clarinetrox2012 on May 10, 2009 21:13:45 GMT -5
I was warming up on my own and my idiot friend comes up and whacks the bell of my clarinet, sending it smashing into the inside of my upper lip.
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Post by keyslinger on May 10, 2009 21:22:32 GMT -5
although i played football i never got injured (at least not this year) but i sprained my hip flexer due to band......the feild was really muddy and marching shoes make the ideal "ice"skate. long story short i slipped and landed in an awkward postion i guess i deserve it because BD warned me like 20 time that night. can you imagine trying to tell the football coach that i hurt my hip in band
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Post by jazztastic on May 10, 2009 21:46:37 GMT -5
I was playing in a small jazz ensemble at one point, and percussionist was trying to move stuff, lost of control of a suspended cymbal, it fell down the stairs and sliced me in the back. Hard. It was like... Charlie Parker but I wasn't even playing in the wrong key (haha jazz jokes)! And yes I was playing while this happened too.
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Post by Tunes on May 31, 2009 18:22:13 GMT -5
I have been hit many times with drumsticks. And they weren't always accidents.
Recently, we (me and some of my drummer pals) were dismantling one of those little wooden model men (the kind artists use to draw the body, the poseable kind). And I was trying to bend one of the wires inside of it. Well, I did bend the wire.... but in the process it ripped out a HUGE chunk of flesh on my thumb. There was blood. Lots of it. And my director didn't let me go to the nurse. He wouldn't even give me a band aid. (He was mad at us for playing around while some other kids were doing their scale projects...) So I had to use my polishing cloth for my sax to soak up the ridiculous amount of blood pouring out of my thumb.
Ah... memories. It's healed now. But I do have a scar, and a story for future bandies. Oh... and a red polishing cloth. XD
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fruple
Band Nerd
Go Participation!
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Post by fruple on May 31, 2009 21:36:28 GMT -5
This past marching season, our show was Defying Gravity, and at one part, before the closer, a guardie would fall backwards onto other guardies and show how gravity was still there and stuff. But, something happened, so she ended up falling, from standing on or above their shoulders, and just smashed into the ground. We were all looking backfield at her at that part, scariest thing ever. She's okay though, so it's cool.
In drumline, someone slipped on a tube of chapstick that was on the floor during a show and twisted her ankle, and almost had to sit part of the season out.
For us cymbals, we were trying to do a double knee crash, but my strap was too tight, and I ended up smashing the side of the cymbal into my leg. This happened twice. As we had another run-through right after each, I didn't clean them out and I still have some sweet scars. A kid tried the crash this season, even though it wasn't in the show, and he did the same thing... Good times.
During a cymbal suicide the year before I joined, my friend was jumping, but didn't get high enough. The back of his ankle was slashed open and bleeding, and as it was about 20 minutes before they went on for finals, he had to deal with it. Another kid got slashed two years ago right above his eye because spacing was off, and he had to get stitches after the show.
Other than that, just the normal cuts and bruises, from what I can remember.
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Post by Lprdgecko on Jun 1, 2009 10:33:37 GMT -5
My sophomore year we had this big wooden props that were laid down at some point in the show and turned into ramps. We would lay 2 of them down next to each other for a "double ramp" thing, if that makes any sense. One practice, they put the props in the wrong spots, so two of them next to each other were not the same height. My friend and I had to march on those props at one point. BD was standing there yelling that they were different heights and to be careful while marching on them. My friend was directly before me in the line, and she didn't hear BD or something and tripped, clarinet went flying down the ramp, she skidded down the ramp. She (and her clarinet) were ok, though. If she hadn't fallen, I probably would have with my luck lol.
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Post by francesca on Jun 25, 2009 11:31:20 GMT -5
I have had bloody lips and gums from playing clarinet at IMEA. I have had bloody lips from playing bassoon at conference music festival, and I have had bruises from being pinched by bassoon keys.
I have a friend who completely screwed up their shoulder at a speech meet. lol
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290Piika
Band Geek
Jazz Flute. :D
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Post by 290Piika on Jun 26, 2009 18:34:40 GMT -5
There was a trumpet and a sax who were fighting over a cookie outside of the band room.
The trumpet crashed into the drama room window, broke it, and got a huge slash in his shoulder. It was bleeding and was really gross. D8
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Post by farore on Jun 29, 2009 14:29:09 GMT -5
my friend got her Achilles' tendon torn (sliced open, bleeding all over the place, 6 stitches torn) by the bass drum that she was trying to pull while pushing something.
I've had plenty of injuries involving our pit cart, which is the size of a car, and carries more than 200 pounds. Someone also ran it into a car and put a hole in it (which no one noticed except for us) when he didn't follow my instructions.
My friend got gashes from the pit cart because if you didn't walk just the right way, your legs would hit this very sharp piece of metal.
Trombone slides. without rubber stoppers. That's all I have to say.
Sousa heads fall off. sometimes.
Freshman year I almost got hit several times because the colorguard was right behind is and had to toss very high in the air. Got hit in the back once by one.
Our chimes also almost crushed a couple people because they're old and reeeeally tall.
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Post by tubagirl123 on Aug 21, 2009 17:21:32 GMT -5
Well, obviously, I'm a tuba player and at rookie camp once I was doing some backwards marching in the parking lot. The sidewalk was right behind me, but I didn't see it. I tripped over it and my sousaphone falls square on my face. Had a hideous looking bruise for a while
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Lee
Newbie
Low Brass Section Leader
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Post by Lee on Aug 22, 2009 13:33:22 GMT -5
Well, the knuckle on my right index finder is swelled up from holding my baritone.
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Post by seastone130 on Sept 24, 2009 21:23:47 GMT -5
We have this thing called the "trombone curse", in which something bad happens to a trombone player every year. My freshman year, the other trombonist tripped over me and fell down during a show (then tripped over me again while she was carrying food). The next year, I nearly broke my foot when I accidentally dropped my frozen water bottle on it, and I limped around for the rest of the year. Last year, I tripped during a football game, and my slide flew off the trombone... I'm the only trombone player this year. I'm scared. xD
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