Klarinet Archive - Posting 000683.txt from 1999/07

From: "Dodgshun family" <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: mail order - local store policy repairs (repair horror stories)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:58:20 -0400

> True stories, not just urban legends abound. Fathers that fine tune their
kids
> fiddles and then glue the pegs in place. I've got a string teacher friend
who
> swears on a Bible on that one.
>
> Unused tampons down the bell of a trumpet. A missing bass drum beater that
> I flushed out of a Sousaphone. We could go on and on.

A friend of mine, at a younger age (12ish) got a Jaffa stuck in his French
horn; I know a trombone player who burst a bag of marshmallows in his case
with disastrous results, one of our horn players got his pencil stuck right
inside his mute last year (took all rehearsal to get it out!) and finally,
an ex-clarinettist who took all the keys off her instrument. Sure, she got
them all back on, but she had two screws left over.....

Anna

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