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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-04-06 18:30
What clutters up your garages and closets? ( I have two Selmer Signets, an R13, and eight guitars (don't ask). Does such clutter bother you/ significant others in your life? Is there a "clarinetist" personality that explains the above? Thanks!
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-04-06 18:45
wjk....What question will you come up with next?
Post Edited (2003-04-06 19:57)
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Author: Pam H.
Date: 2003-04-06 19:28
My closet is full of regular junk that hasn't been cleaned in way too long of a time because I'm always practicing one of the instruments that aren't in the closet. So, my obsession with music does drive me nuts in other ways sometimes!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-04-06 19:43
Yes, the B W TRIES [none too successfully] to restrict me to one closet-full +, and we do discuss additional purchases of playable/collectible horns, and usually do a bit of "horse-trading", her losing battle! Henry's comment echos mine. If I recall correctly, WJK, aren't you related to GBK, our resident-expert on most everything, ?cursed? with greater curiousity than even I. Got it Bad, and Thats ?Good? . Regards, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: PJ
Date: 2003-04-06 21:23
Lets see... I have two R-13's, an old Selmer, an old Bundy (wood), a Vito, an old Austrian Albert system clarinet (that I can't play), about ten mouthpieces, that many and more ligatures, three old spare cases and covers, tons of old reeds that only a couple out of the box played well and those I saved for a 'better day'... and that's just the clarinet stuff!
I've got old saxes, old batons, old method books on piano when I used to teach it, old performance tapes from piano and clarinet recitals and band concerts when I was younger, old tapes and CD's from past recording demos, old programs from weddings and concerts, notebooks from college, teaching method books...
I really hadn't thought about it much, but I've got way too much STUFF! Now, let's just hope the significant other doesn't start thinking about it like this...YIKES!!! Now, the sick thing about all of this is that I sit on eBay and lust over old horns and such as if I need anything else. : )
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2003-04-07 04:33
I do woodworking/ cabinetmaking, leaded stained glass, repair cars and engines, boat, fish, repair/ upgrade computers and dable in photography. My wife sews and bakes. Our son collects things in that he has never thrown anything out voluntarily in 19 years. All three of us read quite a bit. And there is much audio/ video equiptment and software around.
Even counting her piano, my 1 clarinet (OK, I have 2 "dead" ones as well) and my sons many instruments when he's home, the music stuff accounts for a small percentage of all of the stuff in this house, attic, garage, 2 sheds.
(And I didn't even mention the kayak!)
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-04-07 15:52
Well, it's the questions that keep us on our toes. I find them mostly refreshing even if precocious at times. Collecting "stuff" is not restricted to clarinetists but isn't it true that no sooner do you decide to throw something away than you find a need for it.
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-04-07 16:26
How many clarinetists save their played-out reeds? What do you keep them in?
"Don't open that door!" - Fibber McGee
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-04-07 19:25
Aw, man, ya had to ask.........In the basement: About a dozen as-yet unrestored Bb soprano clarinets, an unrestored alto clarinet, an unrestored alto sax; in the "working and playable category we have every size clarinet from the EEb contra-alto to Eb soprano (including four Bb sopranos), all four 'usual' sizes of saxophone, and at least a half-dozen working reel-to-reel tape decks (plus at least as many non-working carcasses to supply parts for the working ones).........Three shoeboxes full of reeds......A shoebox full of ligatures, mouthpiece caps, and marching lyres......Some coffee cans filled with old bells, barrels, and parts of bass clarinet and sax necks......My wife is NOT pleased.
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Author: Benni
Date: 2003-04-07 19:27
The "Old Reeds Home" is typically on the edge of my music stand - sometimes in a pinch, I've pulled one off of there to see if it'll play again, and I've actually got a few decent ones that way. If they've split, chipped, or have been hopelessly waterlogged, they're snapped in two in a landfill somewhere. At least they're biodegradable!
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-04-07 21:51
Split the old reeds and use them for toothpicks.....
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Author: VermontJM
Date: 2003-04-08 00:29
Let's see....
I have my R13... a flute.. a brand new guitar I bought in July with the intention of learning to play and my old high school clarinet that is now in pieces from my half-hearted attempt at an overhaul.
I do keep some reeds- I have the reed from my Junior recital, and possibly from my senior recital.
My favorite piece of musical clutter is the top to an old baby grand piano that I am going to make into a dining room table. (I can't wait- It's going look awesome.)
Jodi
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Author: R13A
Date: 2003-04-08 01:52
Hmmmmm....which closet !!!!! ![[rotate]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley25.gif)
6 R13's, 3 eefers, a C, set of Yamahas, sop sax, E&SMM, E&S, C12, flute
now, onto the lionel train collection closet, then my toy chest, my woodworking tools, gunstock making tools......4 french hens, 3 maidens dancing, and something about a partridge.....
The garage you ask ???????
![[happy]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley12.gif)
men collect..women shop
regards
dennis
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Author: SusanB
Date: 2003-04-08 04:48
My clarinet teacher used old reeds to make "clarinet art"--he did watercolor and marker pictures of clarinets and used the reeds as decoration in the pictures. He was asked to display his work at the art department of the college and it was excellent!
I have my R-13. I have my high school clarinet, an Olds Duratone, that is still in pretty good playing condition, and my "clarinet toy" box. In the box are a bunch of reeds...some old, some new, some that need to be sorted and thrown out; cork grease, bore oil, 3-4 mpcs., a couple ligatures, lyre, 2 sets of little screwdrivers, music dictionary, etc. I also just acquired a Vito 7214 clarinet on E-bay. It should arrive in about 10 days. It's going to be my outdoor horn for the Western Days parade and for bad weather during the summer band concerts.
And then there is my Irish Belleek china collection, and my hardanger embroidery and cross stitch supplies, rubber stamp supplies, and my scrapbooking stuff, and a whole shelf of genealogy research, birth/death/marriage certificates, obits., etc.
My husband has lots of books, enough to fill six foot shelves in a whole bedroom downstairs. He also has a ton of movies.
We all have our own precious stuff, I guess!
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Author: ned
Date: 2003-04-08 05:07
Bob D,
Hopefully you give the reeds a good ole clean before you proffer them to your guests - heh heh!
JK
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