Klarinet Archive - Posting 000203.txt from 1998/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cold weather
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:15:49 -0400

At 10:29 AM 8/5/98 EDT, Chris Hoffman wrote:
>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.

Plastic clarinets do not necessarily WORK better in cold weather; they just
SURVIVE temperature extremes better.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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