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Post by clarinetlover on Oct 25, 2008 16:35:50 GMT -5
...Or, when instruments attack!
I heard a story about someone poking themselves in the eye with their (rented) bassoon bocal and they got conjunctivitis!
A bari sax player got hit in the head with a dancing sousaphone while marching in a straight line a while ago. The tuba was okay, the bari player wasn't. He got a mild concussion. (But he somehow managed to keep marching after the initial "OMG, [name] I'm SO sorry. Are you okay? Are you gonna pass out?")
A few trumpet players have hit themselves in the face when coming to attention.
During band class, a sax got nailed in the back of the head with a trombone slide. (Not to mention the dented slide...)
How about you? Ever gotton beat up by your instrument before?
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Post by bandgeek101 on Oct 26, 2008 20:36:32 GMT -5
im in brass and our baton twirler hit me in the back of the head with her baton. Also, they always lay flags in our way
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Post by zirbo on Oct 26, 2008 21:22:55 GMT -5
One of our sousaphones fainted, we just heard this big THUNK and then our BD running over freaking out. He was ok, the sousa was too One of the freshmen altos stabbed himself in the eye with his lyer, how that happened i'm not really sure, but his eye was red for a while...
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Post by let1troll on Oct 27, 2008 17:41:09 GMT -5
lol. Band related injuries. I have an equilibrium problem anyway, but I had a first trumpet blaring in my ear our entire show all season, which makes my left ear slightly. . . pulsating. Still. And the season's over. Oh yeah. And I fell in a hole when I was marching in block during fundamentals and I pulled my knee out of place. My director didn't even know. I kept marching. And crying. And marching. I think I stayed in line a little better after that. And I memorized the holes in the practice field.
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Post by altosax4life on Oct 30, 2008 21:28:20 GMT -5
The springs on my sax have cut my fingers before.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2008 8:40:17 GMT -5
^This year, our eighth grade trombone actually prodded me IN THE BACK like where my belt is. I chewed him out, said that if he was going to hit me it needed to be in the head, and it turned out he was ducking under another trombone at the time.
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Post by mandadm on Nov 11, 2008 18:51:25 GMT -5
I got hit in the head with my mace while my BD was showing me something..
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Post by Lprdgecko on Nov 11, 2008 21:08:36 GMT -5
When we were practicing at a school in Indianapolis on Saturday, there was a lot of loose gravel in the parking lot we were marching in. One of our drummers fell and skinned up his knee pretty badly, but he was still able to march.
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Post by adrianfoley on Dec 16, 2008 14:56:24 GMT -5
Back in the day when I was a freshman / sophomore (trumpet) marcher I had braces. And a bit of a pressure problem.
I would play so much and try to play so loud that nearly every practice the inside of my upper lip would bleed. As of now (My first year of college) I still have the callus from it. Or is it a scar? I'm not really sure.
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Post by altoclarinets on Dec 25, 2008 15:10:41 GMT -5
There are not enough numbers in the world to count how many times I have accidentally hit someone (usually over the head) with my clarinet... This didn't happen directly to me, but at the state game we had a case of classic TFBC: talesfrombandcamp.com/cgi-bin/tfbcarchive.cgi?date=19990101Yup, it actually happens. Two players form the other team, one from ours. We got a TD on the play after though, so no one really minded...
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Post by SaxGirl on Jan 16, 2009 17:20:13 GMT -5
It's not surprising that I pulled my left groin muscle (albeit to a very minor degree - it healed within a week, and I could still march) in training camp for the Marching 110. (It's kind of easy to see why, though!) Along with everyone getting sick this season, people were breaking stuff left and right. I haven't hurt myself with an instrument in a while, though I DID almost knock my front teeth out with my trombone mouthpiece.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Jan 18, 2009 11:28:43 GMT -5
There were a LOT of guard injuries this year. Between concussions, black eyes and scalp-spliting... it was a pretty exciting year.
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Post by bandnerd525 on Feb 18, 2009 21:31:30 GMT -5
i got a nice dent (yes, dent. didnt peirce the skin, but there was a indent down to the bone) in my finger from a tuba that i was holding the door for, and i have also been hit by slides and flying drum sticks in concert band. then im sure everyone here has probably gotten thier instrument bumped and jammed into thier mouth while playing (hurts like hell when you have braces)
by ex-gf was a guard member who hit a clarinet while doing a flag spin.
thats all i can think of right now.
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Post by $@M1K1N$! on Feb 18, 2009 21:56:27 GMT -5
ha, yes i have two times i think... first time was when while we were setting up for a concert someone fell of the stage while holding his trombone, i tried to help him up and fell on top of him and his instrument, twas painful... and then that one time when i got hit in the head with a flag and the guardie didn't say oops or anything, just got mad at me and brandished her flag pole at me like a power ranger. OH! and that one time when i chipped a tooth with my flute...
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Post by ¢¾ Mallets R 4eva ¢¾ on May 1, 2009 7:59:02 GMT -5
Wow... I was just thinking about this and yesterday I got hurt.
I play mallet percussion and for marching band, I half t oplay the bells that has a shoulder harness. I was putting them back and the bells cut my wrist! I find it sort of ironic...
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