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Post by samthered on Oct 13, 2007 17:11:45 GMT -5
^I'm sorry! I've only played it twice, and that was 3 years ago. I didn't do it! It's getting fixed right now. It was my mom's and it hasn't been really used for about 18 years. I couldn't stand to see it fall apart from age.
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Post by Clariиәrd ♫ on Nov 11, 2007 21:23:53 GMT -5
In honors orchestra a couple weeks ago, we were playing Dance of the Comidians, and our conductor was dancing on the podium, very crazily I might add, and while we were playing and he was dancing, I was watching him for a sec, then I looked down at my music for a bit, then looked up for a cue, and he was gone!!! A viola player was standing up looking up front and a bunch of us woodwinds were trying to figure out what the heck happened cuz we couldn't see with the strings in front of us. Turned out that the conductor fell off the podium while he was dancing/conducting and landed right into a cello!!!! He was ok, but the cello wasn't. From what I saw--broken strings and bow--idk what else.
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Post by claribeth on Jan 23, 2008 17:06:13 GMT -5
i heard about a 6th grader that played a wooden clarinet & left it in the car when the temp. went nearly below freezing & the next day it was split right down the middle
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Post by Trombonium on Jan 23, 2008 21:39:25 GMT -5
My dad was holding my trombone at the tuning slide while carrying my little brother when he was watching a band concert at my school and dropped it by accident. It created a loud sound, but fortunately, there was no visible damage to the instrument.
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Post by Lprdgecko on Jan 26, 2008 23:19:23 GMT -5
i heard about a 6th grader that played a wooden clarinet & left it in the car when the temp. went nearly below freezing & the next day it was split right down the middle Oohh... Ouch... That one hurts my soul... Lol. A drummer's middle school-aged brother broke one of our snare drums I think... Not sure how though...
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Post by flutistpiccolist on Apr 12, 2008 20:23:11 GMT -5
our band was going to festival and we were bout 2 board the bus whn i left sumthing in the bandroom i needed sum1 2 hold my instruments so i askd my friend when i came bakk everything looked good till my B on my piccolo sounded weird it turns out after i left my friend dropped my piccolo i got soo mad not only cuz i culdnt play it for festival but cuz she expected me 2 let her borrow it AFTER i got it fixd!!
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Post by hawkeye42jets on Jun 4, 2008 21:16:23 GMT -5
Once I broke a Bass Drum mallet at a football game, and had to borrow the tenor player's soft mallets until the drum captain could get electrical tape from the band room. Before he got back I had broken one of the soft mallets. Two years ago at an away game we had finished playing and were walking back to our side. Someone from the other school tried to spit on the big bass drum player and he jumped to the side....gouging a hole in his brand new head against one of my lugs. We didn't even tell the bd, and just put white electrical tape over the gash. You really have to love that stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2008 23:53:55 GMT -5
You should have strangled the guy until he gave you a new head.
No JK people don't appreciate the cost and value (like sentimental value) of instruments and so it's easy to make those mistakes.
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Post by fluteaphonist on Jun 8, 2008 12:31:00 GMT -5
My flute that i play now was really bad when i first got it. It was my cousins before it was mine and while she had it she sat on it and bent it (they fixed that though) but she also had one of the trill keys held on and working by a rubber band there was also no corks for the trill keys it needed all new pads the entire body needed to be straightened out. the head joint had spots on it from the polish rubbing off and the foot joint falls off at random points. and the a flat key is bent. I've had to take it to the shop so many times to just get they body of it straightened.
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Post by friedrice2003 on Jun 8, 2008 19:43:14 GMT -5
we were at a football game one year at state playoffs and all of our tubas fell through the stands (yes through) about 10 ft. It was not pretty...luckily all the plumbing and valves still worked and it was just dinged up really badly.
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Jun 10, 2008 23:59:44 GMT -5
lessee...
1. in elementary school there was this one cellist who's cello always seemed to be in the shop because it was dropped, tripped over, or some other kid broke it.
2. in 4th grade one of my friends dropped her violin right on the end button and all the strings popped out of the tailpiece.
3. my brother played alto sax in marching band. at one one the football games, he and his friend who played trumpet did a mouth piece switcheroo. my brother had put either his good jazz or concert mouthpiece on instead of the marching one. it fell off the trumpet and was stepped on.
4. in 8th grade pit orchestra for Annie, i dropped my viola in the pit. luckily our chairs were so close together (about 25 players in a space meant for 10) that it didn't hit the ground and only got a few scratches. that was before i got my good one last summer.
5. sophomore year during marching band rehearsal, one of my friends who plays flute was backwards marching. she tripped on the hem of her jeans and the girl in front of her fell on top of her. the flute was basically destroyed. the middle part was bent and the keys were barely hanging on.
6. freshman year, one of the bass players in the auditioned orchestra decided that she had enough time in her schedule and wanted to play viola in the regular orchestra. she somehow managed to snap the bridge in half on the school viola (in my opinion, it's a crappy instrument to begin with). she decided against telling our director and just put the two pieces back in place.
7. this past year, the freshmen have managed to break three cellos and a violin all owned by the school.
8. not really instruments, but over the past 3 years of being in guard, we've had to replace almost all of our sabres and two of our rifles. the sabres were because they were made out of a really crappy metal from a company no longer in business. the rifles were because they were dropped and hit the grain in the exact spot to make them snap in half.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2008 15:04:03 GMT -5
Did you have to get it welded back? Ouch
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Post by mandadm on Jul 10, 2008 14:57:30 GMT -5
All I have ever done to my clarinet was set it on the floor by the bell while I was fixing music on the stand or something and it fell. My mouth piece chipped in the corner. I'm usually careful with it. I don't think anybody in my band has ruined theirs like any of the other stories Ive read. At least not yet.
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Post by altoclarinets on Jul 24, 2008 13:33:09 GMT -5
While doing inventory, we found, hidden among the derelict old instruments that were hidden away in the uniform room until we needed them badly enough to use them again, I found: A ... I don't even know WHAT to call it French horn An old fashioned bell- front euphonium, with "happy birthday" or some such matter stenciled on it in glitter, derelict. The case was shaped like a figure eight, a little thinner at one end, and I was thinking "why do we have a banjo in the uniform room?" And the Katy Band "I Found the Gold!" Grand Prize: Not one, not 2 but EIGHT Bb mellophones, all gold, all mutilated, all lacking leadpipes. Needless to say, we threw them out. We should have sold them for scrap- we could have gotten a mace for all 5 drum majors off the proceeds.
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Post by trumpetskickbrass on Jul 25, 2008 22:37:52 GMT -5
My freshman year. It was going to downpour so the band director told us to hurry and and pack up and get inside. So i took off heading towards my case, and i DIDNT even see this coming, but apperantly, i tripped over my section leaders foot and FLEW across the ashphault, also resulting and a realllllly big nasty scrape down my leg(i lost a lot of skin that day). I was on the groud howling in pain and trying not to move with kids huddled around me. I had no idea where my trumpet flew to when i tripped but then i saw some kids walking over to me with my trumpet, and the it was scratched and bented, but WORST of all, the whole bell was bent IN. I wanted to cry. So we got inside, and one of the assistant band directors had to BEAT my bell out with a drum mallet. So now, if you look in the horn, it looks like a spiral. Its kinda cool, and i mean its still playable. But it is kinda crappy... :/
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