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Author: samohan245
Date: 2007-11-08 21:56
i was wondering what your worst instrument accident was.
i just dropped my clarinet mouthpiece first and the mouth piece shattered into little shards.
please share your instrument injuries
thanks,
sam
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Author: armadillo
Date: 2007-11-08 22:44
I once reached around in a hurry with my right hand to pick some music off the floor and in doing so knocked my clarinet over quite hard onto a lino floor. A sickening sound. The middle joint tenon broke off, remaining in the lower joint. Some keys bent as well. It was a R13 greenline. Got a graft put in, oiled it (can't remember why), and it came loose and had to be re-attached.
Total nightmare. I move slowly now around my clarinets.
buffet R13, VD M30, V12 #3, VD Klassik (perf. & reh)/Rovner leather(practice)
Post Edited (2007-11-08 22:46)
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2007-11-08 23:02
I once took up my Bam double case and it was unziped so the clarinets fell down but I had only to have my Bb clarinet repaired only the C and C# keys on the lower joint got bent.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2007-11-09 01:22
Samohan245:
I did the same thing. With a Kaspar.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Michelle
Date: 2007-11-09 01:35
I was playing a concert, and during the first half I switched to alto clarinet, so I put the bass clarinet on a stand next to me. The french horn player next to me stretched out his arms and his elbow knocked my bass to the stage, rendering it unplayable for the rest of the concert. Unfortunately, in the second half I had quite a bit of exposed parts that went unplayed as I sat there and pretended to play. Luckily, my husband was able to figure out what was bent and stayed up until 2 a.m. fixing it for me so I could play in the concert the next day.
Michelle
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Author: Margaret
Date: 2007-11-09 04:24
I was using a borrowed (thankfully plastic) clarinet. I fell on ice and my arm swung back as I was falling. I'm not sure how, but the case opened in mid-air and clarinet parts flew everywhere, smashing on the frozen driveway below. I was much alarmed, but nothing was broken. That's the closest I've come to an accident.
Margaret
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2007-11-09 16:36
I had my clarinet on a Pak-a-stand which already was on its last limb (those things break really easily...only use them if needing to travel by air!). I somehow knocked it over and caused the RH rings to bend, unseating the pad attached to them. I tried and tried to bend it back but I could NOT get the pad seated. I ran home (this was about 2 hours before a gig) and grabbed the only other 2 Bb horns I own. One was my student clarinet and the other was my Full Boehm. Of course, the student clarinet was leaky from the pad weevil infestation. And then, the FB reg key spring was a little stubborn. So yeah, the gig basically sucked.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2007-11-09 17:34
College Roomate Jeff Strouf (his dad Ralph co-founded the ICS) wa at his girlfriends apartment and has his Double Case resting on the window sill.
He bumped it and the Clarinet Case went out of the window
4 stories down to the concrete pavement - BANG
Cracked his barrel and bell (maybe both, I don't remember as it was 25 years ago) but no further damage.
Probably did more damage to his heart with the excitement than the Clarinets had.
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-11-09 18:09
> I ran home (...) and grabbed the only other 2 Bb horns I own.
That's why I don't rotate reeds. I rotate clarinets.
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Ben
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