Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2006/06

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sax Stand
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:31:02 -0400

BG also have a strap which goes over the right shoulder and under the left
arm, thus avoiding the neck. One stand available for bari sax is the
Hamilton, which may be able to be modified for tenor if you want to go that
far. It attaches to the bell of the sax by a clamp.
Best wishes,
Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Buckman" <eefer@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Sax Stand

> Karl,
>
> I don't know of a stand, but there is a harness (BG Sax Harness) that will
> take the pressure off your neck. Check with WWBW or Muncy. As far as a
> stand goes, you could always ask the help of an occupational therapist.
> They usually know people who have the ability to construct custom devices.
> Best of luck.
>
> Nancy
>
> At 11:26 PM 6/5/2006, you wrote:
>>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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> Nancy Buckman
> Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
> eefer@-----.net
>
>
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