Klarinet Archive - Posting 000404.txt from 1995/12

From: Teri Herel <Herelt@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: bleach/reeds
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 03:57:32 -0500

In a message dated 95-12-14 19:27:14 EST, you write:

>How do we deal with dead soldiers?

After they've been on the floor for a few weeks & have built up to a
noticible level,
I scoop them up and toss them into an old gutted clarinet case that also
houses the
PIECES of a clarinet my colleagues and I had purchased near the end of our
undergraduate work and fondly named: The Abuse Clarinet. You can only
imagine
what we did with it. While it was still mostly intact we did sight gags,
e.g. wait until
someone important was nearby and then "accidently" drop the clarinet on the
floor, etc.
It's been juggled, tossed from windows, thrown... It's now held together
with a rope.

When I'm practicing at school, I embarrassedly admit that I toss them out the
practice
room windows. I try to get just the perfect arc so that they go straight out
without making a sound - like they're descending into oblivion.
Unfortunately, I've had the unpleasant experience of walking along that side
of the music building and witnessing oblivion. It seems that I am not the
only one tossing them out.

Teri Herel

   
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