Klarinet Archive - Posting 001008.txt from 2003/03

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] accidents, was irresponsible teenagers
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:47:01 -0500

I am accident prone...

One day the phone rand and i walked up the stairs playing my vito and
tripped. It hit the top of the stairs and the bottom joint broke in half.
The mouthpiece and reed tore the side of my mouth and i had a reed stuck in
my lip. I fell down the stairs after tripping too. I was in a lot of pain.

We have a really big tuba player in our band and at band camp he stepped on
a brand new expensive silver trumpet. It was ruined. I need to feel lucky
now that I just have a scratch.

Another friend of mine got a new sax. He tripped over his feet and voila!
the bottom was dented in. You cant tell too bad because the repair guy took
a hammer to it.

I know a flute player who was running while playing her flute and it hit a
wall. She knocked a tooth loose and bent the flute. Apparently this was some
kind of breathing technique she made up. Odd.

I guess I should feel lucky.

My mom gave my clarinet back. I told her moths would eat it. She thought
that was a really lame lie. She told me that if anything happened to it that
I was not getting a new one.

-Rebecca

>From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] irresponsible teenagers
>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:57:37 -0800
>
>It sounds like an accident to me. Unless it is really deep it shouldn't
>cause any problems. A lot of repair people could fill in the scratch so it
>can't be seen. I would advise you to get a case cover which will prevent
>this kind of thing from happening.
>
>Your problems are minor compared to what happened to my son's clarinet.
>One of his friends sat on it. It broke the out the middle joint socket.
>It looked horrible but has been repaired and the repair is almost
>invisible.
>
>Gary
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>At 12:38 PM 3/24/03, you wrote:
>>In December I got a really nice $2,000.00 clarinet. Today I was riding
>>home on the bus and we hit a bump and my case fell out of the seat and the
>>case opened, spite of the fact that it was locked. The clarinet didn't
>>fall out but my screwdriver scratched the wood on the right hand joint.
>>
>>I feel really bad. I think I shoudl have held the clarinet or at least
>>kept the screwdriver somewhere else. I'm not allowed to play it anymore
>>until I turn 18.
>>
>>Is this scratch going to hurt it? It isn't deep but there is more like 3
>>scrathes. It looks really bad too. I guess I should not be playing a
>>$2,000.00 clarinet.
>>
>>-Rebecca,
>
>
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