Klarinet Archive - Posting 000175.txt from 1998/08

From: <Maestro645@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cold weather
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:29:57 -0400

We had a similar experience in marching band. Once, during a football game,
we had to play the SSB and school song on the field. (We also formed a tunnel
for the school song for the team to run through - they would try to run into
our horns and knock them down.) It was so cold that even the plastic field
clarinet I was using wouldn't play. The brass wouldn't play, because their
mechanisms were frozen. We told our director and he said "Just fake it", and
the trombones replied: "How can we fake it if our slides are stuck?!?!?" It
was a pathetic performance. Literally five people were playing - the other
horns would not work.
We didn't do half-time that night because of what we suffered out for pregame.
I guess even plastic has its limits.
Chris Hoffman

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