Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2007/09

From: "Don" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] old breakfast --or????
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:32:52 -0400

In the shop I once worked for, the fun time was summer, when we had hundreds
of school-owned instruments coming through for service. The things you find
in woodwinds and their accompanying mouthpieces, and bass clarinet or
saxophone necks....schools don't take the band schedule into account when it
comes to lunch time.

Don

> On 9/26/07, kurtheisig@-----.net> wrote:
> > I just cleaned a customers sax that nearly made me retch! Really gross
smell. Upon questioning him I found out he drinks coffee just before he
plays................
> >
> > Ugh.
> >
>
> I will never forget my grade 10 music teacher yelling at a
> clarinettist who was eating lunch durring band class - I don't even
> want to imagine what shape that boy's instrument was in.

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