Klarinet Archive - Posting 000760.txt from 2001/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Interesting facts (?)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 06:46:00 -0500

At 02:59 AM 11/28/2001 -0700, J. Shouryu Nohe wrote:
>I speak with no exaggeration whatsoever when I recall distinctly seeing my
>band director 'repair' a trumpet during class in the eighth grade.
>Somehow, a tube of cork grease had gotten into one of the valves! The
>student said the cork grease was in his case because he bought it for his
>sister and forgot to give it to her...the only rational way we figured it
>could have gotten INTO the trumpet was if it fell into the bell...but it
>made its way all the way to the first valve????...

I HAVE seen a paper clip in a trumpet valve (not pretty!). And I have
personally repaired a young clarinetist's instrument at a band festival by
removing a DIME that had become wedged in the lower part of the bore
(Lesson: don't leave loose change in your case!). The mouthpiece cap stuck
in the saxophone is also not as uncommon as one might hope (One could ask
why the cap was not ON THE MOUTHPIECE, but that would be too obvious. :-) ).

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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