Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2001/12

From: "Robert Moody" <LetsReason@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Practical Jokes?
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:15:48 -0500

Speaking of practical jokes...

I was playing first clarinet in Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" and just
before Eb Clarinet solo in "The Witches Sabbath", I conspicuously looked
down at the floor and reached down and picked up a small pad that appeared
to be from an Eb Clarinet. I showed it to the Eb player and asked, "Is this
yours?"

Sweat, red, trembling....I think you get the picture.
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In college, some of the trumpet players went through this phase of flicking
each other off. Everywhere you went, if one trumpet player saw another,
they flicked them off with a nasty face. The receiving trumpet player would
just grin and nod like, "okay...you got me" if they were too slow to
respond.

Previous to one concert, one of the trumpet players decided to get the other
back somehow. So they found that picture of a kid whizzing on things...you
know...usually it's a Ford or Chevy emblem. They blew it up and drew him
holding his other hand up as if he were flicking you off and put the guyz
name in place of the emblem.

I forget the piece we were playing, but it apparently had something where
the second would turn the page for the first for some reason. In any case,
the second had placed the picture so that when he turned the page, on the
opposing page would be this little guy flicking the first off and whizzing
on his name.

For a second, I thought I heard the horse from the band version of Sleigh
Bells that we did in highschool.

Robert

P.S. I had tossed the pad down there after the first solo in the Berlioz.

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