Klarinet Archive - Posting 001226.txt from 1998/12

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: flutes sharp/flat - A story
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:21:48 -0500

Reminds me of a job I played once...

It was community theater pit job. I'd let the director know when we were
working out dates that I would be an hour and a half late for the first
rehearsal. (All the others were fine. Just this first one I had a conflict
with.)
So about an hour and fifteen minutes into their rehearsal I walked into
their room. The director showed me where to sit, and I started to set up.
As I was putting my horn together, I looked around a bit and noticed that
the other clarinet player sitting next to me wasn't playing. Not only was she
not playing, she didn't have her horn out. By then I was just about set up
and the director said to this girl next to me, "Well. Ask her."
The girl (who was a high school student, I'd figured out by then) without
turning to look at me blurted out loudly, "I don't have a reed!"
You can imagine everything that went through my mind as I replied, "Yeah?
And...?"
"Do you have one I could use!"
"Okay..." I looked at the director as I fished in my reed case and
pulled out the most godawful piece of crap reed that should have been thrown
out two weeks earlier and was stiff as a board...

I'm not sure if she ever bought other reeds or used the plank I gave her
for the whole run. She hadn't played in six months, she told me, and I very
quickly tuned out whatever she was doing over there.
Anyway, the point of the story is that after the last show... As we were
driving away, I happened to be leaving as she was and saw her pull out and fly
down the highway with her prize plastic Bundy (and my reed) in its case right
smack on the roof of her car!

I had a feeling that she would either not notice for another six months,
or she would simply not care...

But ten years later, I bet wherever that clarinet landed, my reed is
still there... :)

Teri Herel

In a message dated 12/31/98 12:52:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
secondtimearound@-----.net writes:

<< Me, too. Literally! The mom left it on the roof of her station wagon and
we
all know what happened next! Luckily, it was insured against this type of
damage. :-)

Christina

BRENT A ERESMAN wrote:

> > When are Flutes EVER Flat??? ;)
> > David Blumberg
>
> I saw one once that had been run over by a car... >>

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