Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2006/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Instrument mechanics and surgeons
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:39:10 -0400

Last night I showed up at San Jose's cathedral for a rehearsal of
the Mozart Requiem. There was almost an hour before it started
but I always like to get to a rehearsal early. I'm glad I did.

When I put the basset horn together, nothing in the right
worked!! You want to see the picture of crazy man? Find someone
whose horn doesn't work 1 hour before a rehearsal.

Fortunately my colleague, Sue Macy of San Jose, also comes early
and her husband is my repairman.

HELP!!!, I said with crazed eye. "Nothing works. I can't play."

Sue goes outside the cathedral to get a cellphone connection and
calls her husband, Rufus Acosta, who says, "I'll be there in 5
minutes." ("Doctor, doctor. Save my child. He has stopped
breathing." --- "Madame, I'll be there in 5 minutes. Nurse, get
the oxygen.")

Sure enough he shows up with a small box of tools, examines my
instrument, sees that a spring controlling the right hand F/C key
has come loose (but in a way that it cannot be fixed with the
fingers, only a crochet hook), and 10 seconds later he is out the
door, on the way to another maniac with a busted whatchamacallit.

Surgeons and instrument mechanics do the same thing. They save
lives.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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