Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2006/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Sax Stand
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:28:01 -0400

Last February I played a production for a week of Anything Goes - I think it
was the 4th Reed book, whichever book has clarinet, tenor and bass clarinet.
Midway through the week I began to feel a pinching, burning kind of pain in
the back of my right shoulder which over the course of the week began to
radiate down my right arm as far as my wrist. After an EMG my doctor
diagnosed a pinched nerve in my neck and, to make a longer story shorter, I
have just tonight gotten the results of the MRI I ended up having done. Lots
of arthritis, a couple of herniated discs, some other problems. Listening to
my doctor read the report, it's a wonder I'm not paralyzed from the neck
down. But the irony is the pain has resolved itself and I feel fine right
now.

Now, the question: I have another show to play in July with a tenor sax
double. I'm fairly certain the weight of the tenor pulling on the neck strap
aggravated some of the stuff that's apparently wrong in my neck and caused
the nerve inflammation that was responsible for the pain. Does anyone know
of a sax stand that will support a tenor sax in the right position to play
it - to eliminate the need for a strap? I'm sure I can pad a strap more to
give me a little extra protection, but getting it off my neck entirely might
be even better. Bari sax players play from a stand. Is there such a stand
for smaller saxes?

Karl

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