Klarinet Archive - Posting 000381.txt from 2004/11

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinets - Identification markings ect.,
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:42:36 -0500

As to a locked case, my experience with them as a teacher is that you're
more likely to find your daughter locking herself out by forgetting (or
losing) the key the key one day. Cases that have locks in them usually are
keyed - not combination locks. You'd have to get a more expensive briefcase
custom (re)built to hold the clarinet securely, possibly at a cost equal to
or greater than the value of the instrument. And then all you'll have done
to a determined thief is cause him to destroy the case.

In my experience the kind of thing that happened to your daughter is rare,
and the better line of defense is to find a place to keep the instrument
when it's at school that other kids can't access - a locker, for instance.
The director's nonchalance probably was because he already suspected what
the situation was going to turn out to be and expected the missing section
to come back with the end of the rehearsal. He should have (and may have the
next day after the dust settled) talked with the other student and perhaps
disciplined her in some way because the borrowing without asking permission
was self-centered and over-expedient (but not malicious). A more appropriate
way to deal with a broken clarinet would have been for her to ask someone
who wasn't rehearsing that afternoon (perhaps even your daughter) if she
could borrow the whole instrument.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kimi [mailto:kimi_kimy@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:25 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Clarinets - Identification markings ect.,
>
>
> Today I went to pick up my daughter from band practice
> this afternoon. She had stated that they weren't
> having it because they were only working with honors
> band students which consisted of upper classman which
> made little sense to me but oh well.
>
> When I got there the first thing she told me was
> somebody had stolen part of her clarinet. The top
> half of her clarinet had been taken. She had just
> discovered this right before I got there too. When we
> went to the band director, he had a few helping to
> find it but still it hadn't been found. SO he had
> planned to wait till all the students came back and
> and then ask about the clarinet. In mean time one of
> the students came milling back and heard the commotion
> about the clarinet and next thing I know, the student
> is taking the top half off a clarinet she had in her
> hand and said to me and my daughter, "I borrowed it
> because my top half was broken, I'm sorry" and then
> she walked away!
>
> I was extremely upset by then as it was. She never
> asked to borrow it nor did she tell the band director
> that her own clarinet was broken. She basically just
> took it without a thought to how it would make my
> daughter feel.
>
> SO I have a couple of questions.
>
> It seems on a yamaha clarinet that the serial numbers
> are only on "one" part of the clarinet and that is the
> second half. The bell nor the top half has any serial
> numbers on it. Does anyone have any ideas on ways
> that all pieces of her clarinet can be marked and is
> there such a thing as a locking clarinet case with a
> key or combination lock to prevent this from happening
> again.
>
> The classroom was full of kids milling around getting
> ready for practice so most of them had their clarinet
> cases either closed or open sitting on the floor and
> most of them had walked off for awhile and thas when
> this person zero'd in to borrow the piece she took. I
> did tell my daughter not to leave it anywhere in the
> room again even if she was only going to be gone five
> minutes. To lock it in the locker. But I would feel
> better even if it's not in the locker during band
> itself, for her to have the option of locking it in
> its case if she needs to.
>
> Thanks
> k
>
>
>
> www.yahoo.com
>
>
>
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