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Post by altoclarinets on Jul 30, 2008 19:24:16 GMT -5
Well, not really instruments, but our lockers had been in HORRIBLE shape. They have been around pretty much since the bandhall was built, and there was no repairing them because the company that made them is now out of business. So this summer we're getting entirely NEW lockers! Woooooohooooo! The only problem with this is that it throws a wrench in school owned instrument checkout, because we were going to assign lockers and instruments all at once and now... we can't. There are no lockers in the locker room, and there won't be until August 11. It's a desolate wasteland. Blgh.
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Post by Euphoniums PWN on Aug 16, 2008 11:35:53 GMT -5
Last night at a football game, one of our tuba players was being stupid and fell on our lead trumpet's Strad. It wasn't pretty.
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Post by oboehorn77 on Aug 18, 2008 13:35:03 GMT -5
I just broke my piano. I was playing and there was this clunk and the sustain pedal stopped working. And I mean, I just got up from the piano bench and sat down six feet away in my computer chair, still in shock, to report this.
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zirbo
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Post by zirbo on Aug 18, 2008 17:13:51 GMT -5
The worst I've ever done is drop my case (with sax, seriie III alto) while i was hurrying to rehearsal at music camp. My friend and I were running a bit behind and it just kinda slipped...thank goodness it was only half a foot or so or else I would kill myself. I've also kinda banged the case on doors since I'm still not used to the contour case.
My friend's alto had a bad fall though. She put it down on her chair during rehersal for the spring musical and someone tripped and knocked it off the chair. Her parents wouldn't let it get repaired either because they said it cost too much. It's just the low keys that are bent, so it still works.
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Post by let1troll on Sept 8, 2008 21:01:58 GMT -5
Well, I've never had any really bad things happened to my current trumpet. . . My old trumpet, a school horn, had a broken mouthpiece seal and huge dents that almost closed off the piping on the tuning slide and valve slides. I don't know what happened to it, but I know over seventeen people that had played it over the years prior to mine. My friend's alto ligature got stepped on by a sousa at band camp last year (It was covered up by the grass and, well, sousa's aren't the most graceful). She never even told him, and she has had to use her concert band one all marching season. My other friend's tenor got stepped on in his car and his top buttons have to be taped down. And my section leader's trumpet turns his hands green, so he has to wear gloves in every kind of playing situation. The only trumpet ever known not to change his hands was our third chair's green trumpet. Ironic, no? My friend's loner mello (it was the school's) has an immoble third valve and it's mouthpiece won't move. She doesn't know what happened to it, but she got a new school horn for the marching season, just like all of our other mellos. A baritone player passed out on the field at band camp, dropped his bari and landed on it, then rolled twice. The bell looks like an old-fashioned spiral staircase. A friend had a brand new instrument, he had only had it for 2 weeks, and he tripped over the directors podium and bent the bell back. I can't think of any more, but I'm sure I can milk some out of my ensamble class tomarrow.
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jman
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Post by jman on Sept 9, 2008 19:10:37 GMT -5
My trumpet from 7th grade is totally wrecked=bent/stripped valves, no moving slides, whole nine yards.
My sousaphone had no moving slides and a wrecked bell. I then discovered the other worked and today i jammed the tuning slide.
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Post by altosax4life on Sept 20, 2008 13:47:33 GMT -5
Last night at a football game my friend's sax was sitting on the bench during 3rd quarter. it was supposed to be there but one of is friends was jumping from bench to bench after i told him to use the stairs, then he accidently kicked it off the bench. The bell was bent and it was all scratched up. The kid wasn't even supposed to be in the band section to begin with. We had to physically restrain my friend from running after the guy.
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Post by bariclaribob on Sept 20, 2008 14:03:32 GMT -5
Last night at the football game, two adorable little kids broke my reed when they were trying to crawl into my bari sax. I can't really blame them, since I was watching them. I was just removing my neck and mouthpiece from the bell when they grabbed the moutpiece. *cries* Luckily, my sousaphone friend calmed me down enough that I kept a smile on my face when I told them I had to go sit by my section now. I tried to play later, but my lowest notes were shot. I don't know if that's because of the split reed (hopefully), or if they bent a key. Then I'm dead.
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Post by altosax4life on Oct 5, 2008 18:47:54 GMT -5
We had one of our Freshman trumpet players last year get his mouthpeice stuck. We couldn't yank it out, and he was too impatient for the band director to finish helping someone with their music, and he went to the shop teacher's room. They used a vice grip and pulled- literally tearing the trumpet apart where the metal came together. The shop teacher was going to punch Larry when he found out he had destroyed the trumpet because LArry was too impatient to use a relatively safe mouthpeice puller. That had to be a scary sight. Why would he trust a shop teacher with his instrument though?
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Post by mthsbandrocks on Oct 5, 2008 21:30:34 GMT -5
so last year some loser face stepped on my trumpet when we were outside and it was on the sideline. but the bad part about it is they didnt tell me they stepped on it. so i picked up my trumpet and was like OMG! WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?! i wouldn't have been mad, but i would have liked to have known my trumpet had been stepped on...
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Post by yummiebears on Oct 5, 2008 22:17:03 GMT -5
^^ that exact same thing happened to me. Except I had a loner trumpet because my other trumpet (passed down through the trumpets at my school) is currently in the shop (just random dents from being "stalled" (dropped, caught on the foot and popped back up) last year). We had to play at The homecoming pep rally. We have class competitions so we all go back to our stuff and i pick up my trumpet and it has a HUGE dent and massive creases. So one of my friends took a drum stick and a shirt (to protect the horn) and took the dents out. It still has a crease in it. But it looks a lot better. I just want my old trumpet back.
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Post by bandgeek101 on Nov 10, 2008 0:30:06 GMT -5
lol so in the band room a girl layed her mellaphone on the floor to go get something. Then the pit carts stars wheeling out......you get where this is going.....it was DESTROYED!!!!!!
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gimgak
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Post by gimgak on Nov 10, 2008 19:14:54 GMT -5
I did'nt witness this, but our choir teacher said that a couple years ago they needed to transport an upright piano from our high school to a middle school, and it slipped out of the truck bed...in the middle of the highway.
Also some trombone player accidentally dented their trombone enough so that it was'nt playable, so they ran it over with a car and played frisbee with the flattened out bell.
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Post by freshmanflute on Nov 10, 2008 20:06:50 GMT -5
lol so in the band room a girl layed her mellaphone on the floor to go get something. Then the pit carts stars wheeling out......you get where this is going.....it was DESTROYED!!!!!! Wow that sucks. My freshman year we had something like that happen at our last competition. Right before we step off we always put our instruments on the ground and go huddle around my band director for a little pep talk. One of the band mom stepped on some kids trumpet and crushed the horn. The worst part was he had to march the trumpet like that. I think they fixed it later though not sure
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2009 18:23:45 GMT -5
'nuff said
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