Klarinet Archive - Posting 001092.txt from 2003/03

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Instrument accidents
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:21:38 -0500

I believe this giggle repression is what the BBC show "Coupling"
called "The Giggle Loop"...very funny story! Wish most of the Eb
players I have heard had the same fate, but with someone
REMOVING the trash can with the instrument in it before they
came back.

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New York City
--- Anthony Wakefield <tony-w@-----.uk> wrote:
> We had a Bb clarinettist in our forces band who was a just a
> little
> challenged on technique, tone, fine intonation, sightreading,
> ensemble
> tightness - - - - - - Quite what caused our director to put
> him on Eb
> clarinet for a broadcast I will never understand. We got thru`
> the mic.
> balancing, and took a break before the live relay went out -
> "Music while
> you Work", (for those who come from the UK). As we ended the
> balancing, the
> band placed their instruments "safely" on their chairs - we
> didn`t have posh
> instrument stands in those days. Our eminent Eb player caught
> his instrument
> on his leg in his rush to refresh himself with coffee, and the
> Eb clarinet
> fell into a waste trash bin which was sited next to his chair.
> Forces
> musicians can be extremely cruel at times, as a result of
> which the whole
> band collapsed into fits of laughter upon realising what an
> "appropriate"
> place for this particular guy`s clarinet to find it`s way to.
> The broadcast - a whole 1/2 hour of segue music turned into a
> challenge of
> self-discipline, as every 4 or 5 minutes some different
> musician would
> audibly try to suppress his giggling. Towards the end of the
> 1/2 hour,
> musicians were looking hesitantly at each other wondering who
> would be next.
> I can`t remember what discipline was eventually administered -
> probably not
> much if I can`t remember.

Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!
http://platinum.yahoo.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------