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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Oct 13, 2005 13:46:36 GMT -5
kill my instruments?!?!?! come on Flutist Kes, you KNOW I've never done that before! lol. jk. I have a story about how my flute once died, but it's not my fault, so I think I should save it for some time else... it involves my brother getting really mad at me for practicing.
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Post by saxyflutist on Oct 13, 2005 17:37:08 GMT -5
I never killed Jorge (bari sax), but he tried to commit suicide. The ring that holds him to my harness broke. Thank god I caught him. He had to go to a week of therapy (the school sent him away for a week but he came back & he was still broken) and to Magrowski's.
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Post by bandveteran2008 on Oct 13, 2005 18:35:31 GMT -5
the worsed that happend to grayson (my trumpet) was I gave him a bath and the clear sheld that protects the paint from coming off got all shriveled up and the clear stuff started to come off and now the paints coming off
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Post by princessblow on Oct 14, 2005 21:09:42 GMT -5
I've never really killed my instrument but I've hurt her a little bit. Jane has had a lot of dents in her day as well as a scratch, but other than that her age is just getting to her. I have to get the things that hold the keys on the flute replaced because they're moving out of place and it's just sad. They did a quick fix up because I couldn't leave her there for a week like they wanted so I'm taking her up there to Dr. David on Wed. and hopefully he'll have a flute for me to borrow til I get Jane back.
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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Oct 15, 2005 10:24:45 GMT -5
the worsed that happend to grayson (my trumpet) was I gave him a bath and the clear sheld that protects the paint from coming off got all shriveled up and the clear stuff started to come off and now the paints coming off wow! how exactly that happened, I'd like to know! I've given my trumpet plenty of baths (believe me, it need them, seeing as the previous owner never once gave it a bath) and that's never happened yet!
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Post by prongs4band on Oct 15, 2005 17:44:14 GMT -5
Killed my horn....i'd like to say no...but i don't want to lie, either. So, yes, i have killed my horn. But it rose again. But it's VERY TEMPERMENTAL NOW... My concert horn and marching horn both. (my marching horn is a Bufffet B-12 and my concert horn for now, in a few months i'm getting a new proffesional model, but my current concert horn is a Buffet E-11). but my marching horn decides that it just wants to quit playing 4th line C and B every once in a while (oh, and it's only done that at away games...strange...very strange)...but only at games when it gets below like 60 degrees. and my E-11...it's porbably just me, though. Sometimes it just likes to sound really "mechanical" sounding on 4th line C and B...but my private teacher said that it doesn't need new pads, so i'll just listen to her. and i made sure that no screws are loose or too tight or anything. but that's just about it... Oh...and my ex-marching horn...hahahahahaha!!! it's just totally dead! lol...don't ask...it's been through quite a bit...lol
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Post by javelin on Oct 16, 2005 1:07:53 GMT -5
HAHAHHAHA! I still have my student model (a new old student model made by Vito) from fifth grade and I use it for everything!
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Post by fluteinsanity on Oct 16, 2005 10:12:14 GMT -5
Well, one time at band camp I got bored and took all the keys off my piccolo. Don't ask. I know it was a bad thing to do. When I went to put it back together, it wouldn't play right and I nearly panicked... but I managed to get it back to normal within a few minutes.
That actually turned out to be very good for me to do, since in doing so I learned a lot. So when my friend's flute's trill keys just randomly fell off right before a competition, I was able to get them back on easily since I'd learned from my piccolo. Yay!
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Post by SaxGirl on Oct 17, 2005 16:27:17 GMT -5
Well.... I killed Vladimir (my alto sax) at band camp this year - twice within two days. My G# key was sticking, like it does a lot, so I un-stuck the pad. That worked just fine - until -suddenly, I couldn't play G and A. One of the three Seans in our section said, "Just press on the bar a little bit." So I did, fairly gently. *SNAP!* The whole freaking bar, including the G key and the springs simply FELL OFF. I had to poke around on the ground for the spring and then climb through a window to get to the clarinet sectional room (we were practicing outside because our high school doesn't have air conditioning ) where the instructor could fix it for me. I was told when I paid off my sax that I should get a Selmer because they are renowned for quality. Nonetheless, I've had nothing but problems with my Selmer since I got it: - Useless neck screw (the repair guy said it was overtightened) It doesn't matter now - it fell out once and got run over by a car in the parking lot. Now I lost it and the neck wobbles back and forth violently. - Numerous instances of my G# pad sticking - D wouldn't play - rotten pad after a very short time of owning the instrument - G key's mother of pearl button falls off CONSTANTLY - Low C# wouldn't work - Loose springs (led to the problem I explained above) ...and that was an instrument I bought in February 2002, I believe. I've never killed Tom, the trombone my BD lends me. He's pretty awesome, except he killed me once. He was sitting on the couch on the bell so that he was upright on the cushion. I sat down hard on the other cushion and, like a seesaw, I went down and Tom flew up and his bell smacked me really hard in the head.
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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Oct 17, 2005 16:33:21 GMT -5
Well, one time at band camp I got bored and took all the keys off my piccolo. Don't ask. I know it was a bad thing to do. When I went to put it back together, it wouldn't play right and I nearly panicked... but I managed to get it back to normal within a few minutes. That actually turned out to be very good for me to do, since in doing so I learned a lot. So when my friend's flute's trill keys just randomly fell off right before a competition, I was able to get them back on easily since I'd learned from my piccolo. Yay! hey, it works! a scary thought is that my old flute (Flutie) was my mom's flute long before it was mine, and when my aunt was in music school, she had to repad an instrument, so she borrowed my mom's flute and repadded it. obviously, she did a really good job, because I've only had to get like 2 pads replaced.
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Post by friedrice on Oct 18, 2005 4:34:15 GMT -5
Desperado is liek the gold guy down the street who can bearly walk and everyone is just counting his days down. The leadpipe is literally OFF....someone tried to fix is sometiems in the mide 80s....but they used the wrong typs of soder and now nothing will hold it on because the chemical make up of the connection point is all messed up.
But I use Emily...so I don;t really care.
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Post by flutesarefriends on Dec 5, 2005 21:57:57 GMT -5
i've never really screwed up my flute, but my friend is a different story...
at GT band rehersal 2 years ago she got up to go to the bathroom and put her flute on her chair. Then she came back and sat on it (like right on it) and immediately started screaming her head off. the tubing ALMOST broke in two. she got out of 3.5 hrs of rehersal to fix it though...it still has a major dent in it. and she's paranoid about flutes on chairs. it's quite funny.
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Post by friedrice on Dec 6, 2005 5:34:47 GMT -5
I killed my dad's trumpet...in 7th grade. mien was in the shop so he let me barrow his adn I dropped it on it's bell. That was not a pretty sight.
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Post by friskylurker on Dec 6, 2005 16:15:56 GMT -5
my bass, lerato, had a bar-spring thing break in half about a week after i got it from school. in the middle of the summer. so i had to get him fixed instead of taking him to school so they could, but at least I didnt miss playing in band or anything. other than that, hes been fine... I think I'm nicer to him than most of our bass players are to theirs.
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Post by itsnotanoboe on Dec 7, 2005 21:38:27 GMT -5
None of my instruments have officially died yet, but I have encountered some problems. When I first started playing bassoon, I had to use Maggie, a school-owned instrument. She was made of wood and probably older than my grandma. Not only was the paint chipped, but some of the wood was chipped off and there were dents. The cork came out of one piece completely, and all this was already there when I got it. Thankfully, another basson came in, Henrietta, and she seemed almost brand new. It is shiny fiberglass. It isn't as perfect as it seems, when I play G flat I get some funky overtones. Darn school instruments. Also, many reeds have almost killed me! Reed mold takes over them and they organize a mutiny on me. :pirate: Blegh!!
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