Klarinet Archive - Posting 000442.txt from 1995/12

From: Cathleen Renee Orr <orrcathl@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: bleach/reeds
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 02:02:27 -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
>

Teri, your ABUSE CLARINET reminds me of a story I once heard. The summer
before my senior year of high school, I was in the All State band at the
best a kid could ever hope for as a director ) was telling us about hihair
he threw his brand new Buffet out a window. Incidentally, as he told this
story, the whole band laughed, except the clarinet section which just sat there
initial shock wore off!

- Cathleen