Klarinet Archive - Posting 000989.txt from 1998/09

From: Ben Stutzman <benstutzman@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] playing in the rain :(
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 04:50:10 -0400

Just this afternoon our HS marching band put on a show for the middle
school. Outside it was already soaking wet, but we played anyway
because it wasn't raining. At the moment. In the middle of our show it
started pouring. We kept playing.

Tonight when we tried to warm-up for the football game, a number of
woodwinds noticed they couldn't play. Doh! Fortunately, I wan't one of
them. As soon as I started playing, though, I noticed my fairly
free-blowing clarinet played harder. But it is not ruined. It is
highly likely this will happen again later. Is there anything you can
do after you play to revive your pads? My Bundy is NOT worth fixing.
How hard is it to replace pads yourself? A lot of other things are
wrong with it. Is it worth overhauling a bottom-of-the-barrel Bundy?
(no alliteration intended) I also will use it in concert band when I
don't take my R13 to school.

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