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Post by chriskostyshyn on Jul 26, 2007 0:15:07 GMT -5
This has always been a HUGE fear for me, so i wonder if anyone else has had someone destroy your instrument, or you tripped down the stairs, or anything happening to your instrument. I had someone kick my Tenor Saxophone (Lucky it wasn't my Selmer). Wasn't impressed. And a snare drum player try to jump over my Bassoon case (If it was a candle stick, he would have been burned). So ya your stories?
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Post by ba12itone on Jul 26, 2007 2:57:09 GMT -5
oh god... I can't even explain. Our school's worst euphonium is called 'The Beast' for a reason.
Ok, The Beast smells terrible. When you play it, you hands smell terrible, and you can't eat after you play it unless you wash your hands. It's held together with duct tape, valve oil makes the valves worse, it makes good players sound terrible, and I believe it's been thrown off of balconies once or twice.
I'm not sure if anything else needs to be said. I had to use it for 3 months... It was horrendous.
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Post by oboehorn77 on Jul 26, 2007 12:40:50 GMT -5
There were a couple moments in pit orchestra where my reeds (yeah, my instrument would have been fine, but my reeds!) were on the floor and the clarinets ran through the pit... almost gave me a heart attack, especially when one of the kicked a plug for a stand light real close to where the reeds were and some sparks flew.
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Post by bariclaribob on Jul 26, 2007 17:21:03 GMT -5
Lessee here...
There was the time when my clarinet fell off a desk and plunged straight to the ground reed first... needless to say, I needed a new mouthpiece after that (luckily, it was the sucky plastic one it came with).
Then there was the school bari, which was dented, smelly, and held together by my own system of rubber bands. I lost its mouthpiece and had to buy a new one.
Then in band one day, I was switching between oboe and clarinet, so I had the oboe across my lap, and this girl totally walked into my reed. It was perfect. The ties were still tucked in, and it was used so that it didn't squeak, but there weren't any cracks at all.
I had some troubles with the HS's bari, and it had to be repaired once or twice. I had to borrow someone else's bari for the year book pic. And either the reeds I got or the mouthpiece were so messed up this year! Maybe I just suck.
And I didn't play the oboe once this year. It was screwed too tight, and I couldn't fix it, and my bd ignored me until the end of the year when I said it absolutely had to be repaired.
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Post by friskylurker on Jul 26, 2007 21:51:51 GMT -5
whoever had the brilliant idea to put the neckstrap hook thing of the buffet bass clarinets on the TOP joint needs to be strung up by their toes. i mean, come on! the bottom half is over a foot of heavy wood, plus the metal bell. i haven't greased that joint in months, but the bottom half still fell off... and got bent. on my europe trip. so i couldnt play for the last two concerts, and had to recruit the clarinets next to me to play my 4 important measures, since i was the only bass. it was terrible and its still messed up because it's a school instrument so i can't just take it in, i hvae to figure out how to get it to my director so he can send it in to Ateam. and he's out of town and i missed the marching band rehearsal because i was out of town, so i pretty much can't get into the band area cause it'l be locked.
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Post by Trumpet1 on Jul 27, 2007 11:34:34 GMT -5
10 years ago, someone shot our plastic sousaphone I guess it's not "destroyed", duct tape covered it up well ;D
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Post by chriskostyshyn on Jul 28, 2007 5:48:51 GMT -5
Shot your Sousaphone??? Like with a gun?
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Post by Trumpet1 on Jul 28, 2007 12:42:09 GMT -5
Yup, with a 9mm. It was our rival school's sousaphone, and they were getting new ones, so after the last show, the seniors took it to the country and shot it; one hole, in the bell, minimal damage. But they didn't know it was getting donated to our school Thank god for duct tape ;D
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Post by webster on Jul 29, 2007 4:37:57 GMT -5
Before our current DM was DM, he played trumpet. His Sophomore year, he got a brand new silver trumpet. One day, one of his friends pulled his chair out from under him and he fell and sat on his trumpet. I don't think it qualifies as a trumpet any more.
Our middle school band is known for being really crappy. I was in our band room last school year and I happened to notice that there were 5 trumpets in one rather small locker, all out of their cases with mouth pieces stuck. We called it the trumpet orgy. I asked my BD if it would be a crime to put arsenic on all the mouth pieces...
One of the school's Bari Saxes has a massive dent at the bottom below where your right hand would go. It turns out that a previous bari player smashed his head into it for what reason I do not know.
Our #4 bass drummer this year is new and he doesn't yet realize that you can't see what's in front of you. While walking back to our high schoool from a parade a few blocks away, he ran into 4 trash cans.
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Post by trombonemeister on Jul 29, 2007 18:31:35 GMT -5
We have one baritone and my school that is named Strange. He is named Strange because he is... he weighs more than all the other baritones, has screwy valve guides, and he has been welded many a time...
Last year my friend (she plays baritone too) tripped on a kid during mb practice (she was marching backwards, and the kid behind her stopped for some odd, unknown reason) and fell down. Then the sousa player in front of her fell on her. She wasn't hurt, but her baritone was so sad looking! One side of the bell was completely flat! And even though it was the kid behind her who made it happen, she still had to pay to have it fixed!
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Post by trmptgrl90 on Jul 30, 2007 3:25:12 GMT -5
My friend's trumpet was dropped off the top of the bleacher's in seventh grade. That was the year she got a new one.
One of my friends dropped their clarinet's mouthpiece down the bleachers at a football game. It broke. Completely. And he was unlucky enough to have been unable to locate his plastic mouthpeice before the game. So he had to replace his concert band one.
One of the freshmen in band last year was dumb enough to look at a chair that had a trumpet sitting on it and then tip the chair forward so he would have a place to sit. The second valve slide was ruined, and the bell was badly misshapen. I just about throttled the stupid kid. He was nearly in tears when I stopped yelling at him tho. I don't even remember whose trumpet it was, either frosh prodigy or one of the seniors. It was a professional quality horn, and he just dumped it onto the floor. Stupidity like that drives me nuts.
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Post by flutebandgeek on Aug 4, 2007 4:21:40 GMT -5
We've thrown a dented trombone slide into the fire at Band Camp a couple years ago.
My flute is so bad, the screw comes out on the B key, and it gave someone a lip rash last year. Oh, and the footjoint has a tendency to fall off, at random times. I am so glad it is a school instrument.
There are so many dents in it, I am SERIOUSLY hoping I won't get in trouble for damages NOT caused by me.
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Post by Trumpet1 on Aug 4, 2007 16:59:24 GMT -5
Not my personal story, but possibly the most expensive instrument destruction: Two Moors Festival (classical music festival) in Devon, Ireland was to feature a brand new Bösendorfer piano earlier this April. However, a moving company dropped the piano while unloading and destroyed the ₤45,000 (USD$92,000) piano. It fell 2m and flipped over the slope. Ouch
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Post by mewmedia15 on Aug 4, 2007 20:25:52 GMT -5
I play clarinet, and nothing major has ever happened in my section. However, one of the (brilliant) trumpets last year decided to surf on his instrument, and the bell was crushed to the point of falling off. He then proceeded to look in awe as the bd told him that he would need a new trumpet.
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Post by oboeman on Aug 4, 2007 21:12:01 GMT -5
well...i, as an oboe player, have seen many reeds demolished...and not cuz they were dead. People walking into my reeds, knocking them on door frames after leaving practice rooms, dropping them, and many more. but by far, the worst case of destroyed instruments i've seen is one of our trumpet player's trumpet...before he got a new one, he could pretty much bend it in half. Everyone knew of it. All you had to do is say, "yeah, that's about as bad as [trumpet player's name]'s trumpet" and people instantly knew you meant business.
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