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Post by bariclaribob on Aug 4, 2007 21:51:29 GMT -5
We've had some sad-looking sousas for the past... I dunno, 14 years. One has so many chips and scratches and dents in it that it's kind of an honor to play that one. My friend who plays it for marching band'll tell me a story about evey single scrape on it. "Oh, that one? That's the one [former dm] gave it X years ago... and that one? That's the one [bass drummer] gave it the year he marched sousa... and that's from when I walked into the fence at that one parade...." She's done a marvelous job giving it cosmetic repairs through the careful use of white electrical tape.
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Post by clarinetbird on Aug 5, 2007 9:48:22 GMT -5
I havenèt managed to destroy my insturments. There was a month where I had my take my sax in 4 times cuz the octive key was bent.
In grade 7, one of the trombone players tombone was hit by a car, he was being an idiot. And our school had a major year that year with 2 flutes, one bari, one tenor, one base clarinet, and 2 clarinets beyond repair.
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Aug 5, 2007 18:09:52 GMT -5
At our feeder middle school, there is a baritone that we call The Midget. Apparently, it was dropped off the bleachers. The entire bell was twisted and flattened, and none of the slides come out. It plays like crap too, and the first chair Symphonic baritone player had to play it for the recording concert once. XD!
And then there was that time in 7th grade when I dropped the then brand-new school YEP 321 off of the bleachers by a freak accident. Put a huge crease in the bell and completely bent the fourth valve stem.
And who could ever forget the time that the freakin' awesome trumpet player tripped on a nice, new 4000 dollar french horn in the parking lot? The poor girl who owned the horn cried for the whole day, and when it came back from the shop, the was a giant stripe on the bell where the laquer had peeled off.
This one's just sad. Someone shoved a chair in front of a tuba player who then succeeded to put a MASSIVE series of dents in the school tuba (it was a nice Wesson rotary valve too).
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Post by flutebandgeek on Sept 14, 2007 20:28:13 GMT -5
Oh, and I'm surprised Ba|2itone hasn't beaten me to this yet.
There's this one baritone freshman who is the WORST with his instrument. When we were marching down to the field, we have to walk down a hill, and then he totally FALLS. Holding his baritone. I figured he'd at least try to save the instrument, but NO, it goes falling with him. His bell was all scratched up and horrible. There goes instrument one.
I can't remember EXACTLY what happened to the others, but on Thursday night, he ahd JUST gotten one of his baritones back that had gone in for repair THAT DAY, and he fell again. Not only were there scratches on the bell AGAIN, but he badly scratched the part of the instrument BY the bell. There goes instrument number FOUR.
If it happens again, we'll kill him.
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Post by bandmutt08 on Sept 17, 2007 22:34:09 GMT -5
Last year at Grad Band, I had set my bassoon in a corner to go make a 30 second phone call.
When I come back, my bell is DESTROYED. This flute player had stepped on it, and it was shattered. I mean, I'M careful about walking around the band room, especially in moments of chaos, but apparently some people don't watch their step.
It was completely out of the way, too. Like, right against a wall and everything.
So, I get stuck paying the damage, or at least if they decide that they need to replace the bell, I get to pay for it.
I'd be willing to pay half, because it was my fault for leaving it unnatended. But she should at least have to take some responsibility for not being careful in the band room? Maybe it's just wishful thinking..
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Post by oboehorn77 on Sept 19, 2007 15:10:38 GMT -5
^I agree with you. Who doesn't occaisonally get up and leave their instrument somewhere at least breifly? I'm going to have nightmares about that now.
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Post by Jennnnnnnnnnnnnnn on Sept 25, 2007 16:58:52 GMT -5
Nothing happened to me yet! but my friends alto saxophone got ran over by a bus!!! That would really suck!
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Post by Clariиәrd ♫ on Sept 25, 2007 17:29:05 GMT -5
^how did your friend's sax get run over by a bus? ? geez louis! >in 7th grade, my clarinet was completely demented, like, it just didn't play right. it was really weird. i never found out what was wrong with it.......because i accidentally fixed it!! here's what happened-- i was putting it together one day during a sectional, and i had the bell and lower joint between my legs, and i had the barrel and mouthpiece in my left hand and the upper joint in my right hand (i have no clue what the heck i was doing that i was putting it together in such a ridiculous fasion!), and i was putting the barrel on the upper joint at the same time as i was putting the upper joint on the lower joint. well, while i was attempting this....ridiculous w/e i was doing..., and the lower&bell slipped off the chair from between my legs and caused a chain reaction sending the upper joint flying in a different direction when i made a failed attempt to catch the lower joint which caused me to drop my mouthpiece&barrel which caused me to go "aaaaaah!!!!!!" which caused my reed to go flying out of my mouth. i was soooooo mad and freaking out. i was like "aaah! i don't need anymore trouble w/clarinet right now!!!!" so i went and picked up all my pieces and found my reed (which was miraculously unharmed!), and i put my clarinet together the normal way. i immediately played it to make sure it worked ok, and i was amazed.......... my clarinet was back to normal!!! it wasn't crappy sounding and it actually worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! it was sooooooooo weird! i still don't know what happened to this day!!!!
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Post by euphoniumgirl on Sept 25, 2007 19:53:09 GMT -5
^ Wow.
>Well when I was working with our old student teacher at our new bds' middle school I was helping them take invantory. I saw a professional Holton french horn case and quickly pulled it out. What I found almost made me cry : a beautiful double profesional silver Holton. But here is the catch, someone had obviously crushed the bell on purpose. Why would someone do that to an instrument?
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Post by bariclaribob on Sept 26, 2007 18:47:36 GMT -5
The band moms yell at me every parade for leaving my clarinet on the blacktop. I understand their concern, but it HAS to be put down, and I can't babysit when I'm getting my uniform off the rack. As a band, we have all learned to look out for random instruments on the ground. Our main rule is to just not ever lay your instrument key-side down. Other than that, I guess just cross your fingers and say a little play for unattended instruments everywhere. (Woah, that rhymed.)
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Post by ilovemyflute on Sept 28, 2007 10:29:08 GMT -5
we have this big thing that we can lay our instruments on after halftime when we get our free 3rd quarter. so i set my piccolo next to my sisters tuba so it wouldn't get steped on. well i was wrong. when i came back my piccolo did get steped on and the right pinky piece had broken all the way off. i was so mad.
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Post by aznfiddle on Oct 11, 2007 23:57:39 GMT -5
Well... It wasn't really my fault... I was playing my violin at this gig, and I was getting really into it. All of a sudden in the middle of a DMB's "Ants Marching" cover, my bow hairs started to snap really quickly and the tension in the bow wasn't the same on both side so it snapped in half. Luckily, I always carry around a spare... I think that was the first time that I ever wore out an instrument...
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Post by chriskostyshyn on Oct 12, 2007 0:13:24 GMT -5
Rofl, noone considers a bow an instrument. Except string players for some gay reason. Thats like me calling a reed an instrument
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Post by oboehorn77 on Oct 12, 2007 15:48:19 GMT -5
^gay??? O.o We could talk about the nightmares I've had about broken reeds if you like, by the way.
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Post by bariclaribob on Oct 12, 2007 21:33:21 GMT -5
We have to bring my little sis's alto into the shop b/c when it was left (unattended....grrrr!) on a chair during rehearsal, some kid jumped over her chair and knocked it to the ground. *sob* And a key got totally bent out of shape. Her bd thought she broke and started to yell at her. I'd laugh, but broken instruments want to make me want to cry. samthered brought in an old clarinet that I was looking at, and I almost burst into tears. Corking. Simply peeling off, stripped away... and it was a Normandy, too! Waaah!
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