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Post by Flutist Kes on Oct 12, 2005 15:05:03 GMT -5
Yeah... so today... when we were packing up after jazz... I was putting my sax... in it's case... *sob*... and... and... THE OCTAVE BAR THINGY FELL OFF! I KILLED DAVID! :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: So now I have to send it into Marshall's, and my Dad is all ticked off (my friends gathered at my car to see him yell at me), so he's not driving me today... actually, it's not that, it's just because he has a Senior to take picture of, so yeah... and I probably won't get it back 'til... well, past next Monday... which means I have to use the crappy old smelly saxohone! :bigcry:
Have any of you guys killed your instrument before?
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Post by bandveteran2008 on Oct 12, 2005 15:16:19 GMT -5
no but im sorry that your register key came off
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Post by Flutist Kes on Oct 12, 2005 15:48:07 GMT -5
Oh, so that's what it's called... I don't know. It just fell off. What do you expect when it's held on only by 5 millimeters squared of melted metal?
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Post by iluvmybassclarinet on Oct 12, 2005 15:57:49 GMT -5
I have never killed Ceaser before. (Ceaser iz my bass clarinet)
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Post by bandveteran2008 on Oct 12, 2005 16:03:59 GMT -5
Oh, so that's what it's called... I don't know. It just fell off. What do you expect when it's held on only by 5 millimeters squared of melted metal? Its wierd im a brass player and i know what a register key is
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brassqueen1988
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Post by brassqueen1988 on Oct 12, 2005 16:57:58 GMT -5
My dad killed mine when he was trying to get my stuck mouthpiece out. He tryed to be shady and blame it on me, saying that "Oh, this tubibg was like this before I started working on it." LIAR!!!!! GRRRRRRRR.......!!! It was gone for a month to get fixed.
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Post by flute03 on Oct 12, 2005 17:42:53 GMT -5
My saxophone has never been broken but the day of festival one of my fellow saxes to my alto and put it in somesort of design he was making with a bunch of them. I told him don't you dare use my sax for that but he took it anyway and when I came backhe had it so I grabed it back and our BD told us to get into concert arc to run though the music. Well when I went to play I couldn't get any notes out so I checked the reed and the keys but couldn't find anything wrong. But then I noticed that the register key wasn't closing so I turned around and told hime I was going to kill him. lucky for him one of my friends was able to bend it back in place so I was able to play at festival.
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Post by javelin on Oct 12, 2005 17:52:33 GMT -5
My clarinet hasn't broken yet. It hasn't really been in too many disasters and it has survived this marching season so far as well as last year's marching season.
The bassoon I play (school-owned yay) hasn't broken yet, but it hasn't had too much a chance to be broken while I was playing. I do remember the first tragic time I broke a bassoon reed. I didn't even break it--my sister did.
My saxophone was really expensive and is something like 30 years old. If I broke it my bd would flip out and my parents would begin the apocalypse. Not really the apocalypse but you know I'd get it worse from them considering they consented to my playing a nice instrument and bought it. My bd would just witness something very tragic, especially since he's played it before and he is originally a saxophonist.
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Post by jguy1288 on Oct 12, 2005 18:12:17 GMT -5
I killed my bass trombone once. My freshman year I was at my private lesson, and I was trying to pull the F trigger tuning slide out. I held down the trigger while I was doing so, and the trigger fell off. The soldering just came apart and the trigger mechanism was just hanging there. I still had like half my lesson to go, and I felt terrible.
The only other thing I've done involves my clarinet. I was still a new player, so I didn't know how often I had to grease the corks. I guess I didn't grease my mouthpiece cork enough, so when I went to put the mouthpiece on, the cork ripped off. That happened again after I got it fixed. Then I got a new mouthpiece.
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Post by megabassclarinetist on Oct 12, 2005 18:33:31 GMT -5
I half killed the school bass clarinet last year... The day of graduation... It was sad cause it couldnt play the high register at all. It was sad.
My clarinet didnt die per say, but one marching band practice all the keys spontaneously fell off. That was weird...
Mello and Horn are fine as of yet...
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Post by quiritomachina on Oct 12, 2005 19:06:11 GMT -5
I have only had one incident and that was in my eighth grade year. We had band first class of the day, and when we did the Pledge of Allegiance I set my trumpet on my chair, confident I would remember it was there before I sat down. Whoops! I didn't think I put much pressure on it but then a few minutes later one of my friends looked at it and was like "Holy crap what did you do to your horn!?" The bell was bent so that it was practically touching the main tuning slide. I was nearly in tears that night when I took it to my parents. Fortunately school was off the rest of the week for parent-teacher conferences and so the next day I took it down to the local music shop and they had it fixed by the end of the day. Fortune has smiled on me since and I have not had any more terrible things happen to my trumpet.
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Post by toocuteflute on Oct 12, 2005 19:23:54 GMT -5
OMG lol this boy fell on a tuba and made a huge dent in it w/ his butt. Well, it's not THAT funny cuz it was a brand new tuba (Our school gets a new tuba like once every 8 yrs, im so serious), and this girl sat on her flute and dented it. I hit Jimmy (my flute) a couple of times, but i never killed any instrument. We have a rule in band bout our instruments: "You drop it, you kiss it."
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Post by ittybittybone on Oct 12, 2005 19:30:17 GMT -5
I bent the heck out of my spit valve over time.. And, once, i rested my trombone on my chair in jazz band to change my music.. and the wind (we were outside) blew and it fell over!!! I bent the upper part of my bell on both sides, and one of my teachers tryed bending it back for me... I sent it in 3 times to be fixed and never was. It decided to break off at the welding this spring.. so I had a 'FUN" time trying to play my very first and only solo in my last jazz band concert back in May with a extreme air-leaking trombone.
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Post by tenorsaxspartan on Oct 12, 2005 19:36:53 GMT -5
Let's see...the low Bb key fell off during a rehearsal...as did this little itty bitty pad that somehow interconnects with the octave key or whatever (give me a break...I've only played saxophone for a year or so...and I taught myself...I didn't get technical...) and then the mouthpiece cork ripped in half...and that was just this month...before that it didnt' play anything...but now that it has been refurbished...it plays beautifully...
If it ever breaks again, I'm taking a hammer to it...I've had it for about 6 months now...and it's been in the shop about a month of it, three different times...
If anyone lives in New England...I know who you should take it to and who you shouldn't now...
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Post by dorkysax on Oct 13, 2005 11:52:27 GMT -5
Oh, so that's what it's called... I don't know. It just fell off. What do you expect when it's held on only by 5 millimeters squared of melted metal? Octave Key. Register Key. Its the came thing. I killed Charlie before. He was my old sax. I had him recorked cause the cork was coming off. His intenation changed COMPLETELY after that and I wasn't able to play him at all anymore. It killed me! Now I have Sarah. I'mma be more carefull with her. I love my Sarah.
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