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Author: CharmOne
Date: 2003-10-14 01:51
I know this is almost nothing to do with the bboard, but what other things u like to do in life? Just wondering...
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-10-14 02:12
Eat (Thai, Korean & Vietnamese are particular favourites), 2 kilometre daily "constitutional walk" in a vain attempt to deter the middle-age-spread-affected six-pack - that is keg, and watercolour painting (badly), feed my local parrots (rainbow lorrikeets, cockatoos, galas predominantly) and give grief to my bible bashing neighbour (in a friendly non-confrontational-way).
North american cousins: 2 kilometres = 1.3 miles (roughly).
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2003-10-14 05:20
Cycle, swim, cross country ski, and yes-listen to other musicians make it happen once in a while.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-10-14 05:41
Hacky Sack (yes, I am serious), lift weights, snowboard, watch cartoons (specifically of the japanese often called 'anime'). Of course, these interests are besides that of the clarinet. Not necessarily in that order.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: stickpoet
Date: 2003-10-14 05:51
Every day at least for 5 minutes
I stare at the crystal mouthpieces
I mean, about 6 or 7 of them
Before wanting to play my R13
Seriously, real seriously...
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-10-14 06:44
Interesting question, CharmOne. I don't find it too far off track. Most musicians I know have many other interests. I take your question to mean what activities do we like in addition to or besides making music and listening to others making music.
Well, let's see; there's drawing, oil painting, gardening, building live-steam engines, walking, attending church, howdy-ing, get-togethers with friends...
- r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
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Author: donald
Date: 2003-10-14 10:19
after playing/teaching/making mouthpieces and reeds.....
.... running 10kms 5 times a week (and i'm still fat), playing "ultimate frisbee" (also known as Frisbee soccer), surfing/bodyboarding whenever possible (including on opera tours and after Clarinetfest visit) and then hanging out with friends at home or the beach doing yet even more surfing. Of course- there is often a clarinet in the car, and i've often been seen sitting in the passenger seat practising while i wait for the tide to turn or wind to change etc If i didn't drink coffee my reeds would probably last longer, but some things can't be sacrificed.
donald....
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2003-10-14 10:28
beside playing clarinet (and especially bass clarinet) i also play chess. it's more addicting more i thought it would be. i better quit if i want to get better in music, but i can't.
if you think it's like any game (backgammon, checkers, etc.), it's really not. it's a VERY complicated game, not much easier than music if at all.
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Author: jez
Date: 2003-10-14 11:05
Rock-climbing, windsurfing, cycling, photography, juggling, folk-music, reading this BB.
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Author: Tom A
Date: 2003-10-14 12:55
Well, just as my dormant interest in astronomy erupted again, I found a 10-inch-diameter Meade reflecting telescope on a certain internet auction site for $US640. I think I know how a few evenings might be spent in the medium term.
Oh yes, and looking after my wife and the best 3-year-old boy in the world.
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Author: David
Date: 2003-10-14 12:58
1986 Suzuki GSXR-1100G oil boiler, 3rd (& best, if you ignore the chocolate transmission) Generation Nissan Maxima, Alto and Tenor Saxes, working on the house, spot of gardening.
Orchestras, dance band, and the concert bands -
one demands and produces extremely high standards and is, more importantly very good fun;
one medium standard, takes itself seriously, but just not much fun - drifting away from that, especially as the plots in "The Bill" have been pretty good lately;
one local communuty band with varying standards, that should by rights be dreadful. However I am proud to play with them because the people are so nice, and put a real effort into the playing, and manage pretty good gigs. I don't do as many concerts with the others that get such big and genuinely enthusiastic singing, shouting and stamping audiences. And they also seem to manage to wrangle really good buffets. (Small "b")...
David
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Author: wyatt
Date: 2003-10-14 14:38
let's see there is napping, reading,dogs and horses,writing,thinking of women (that's #1),time with friends, shooting pool,watching movies and then more of #1.
it's a tough life but someone has to do it.
pawn to K4›
bob gardner}ÜJ
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Author: William
Date: 2003-10-14 15:07
Curling--Yes, that game played on ice with 42 lb granite rocks. I have been curling for over thirty years (when not clarinetting, eatting, breathing, etc) and am currently preparing for the coming season with starts in Novemeber and lasts until March. We have the second largest curling club in the United States (400+ members) and have been home to many state, national and international championship teams, including the current 2003 World Womens Championship curling team, skipped by "our own" Debbie McCormick. Her father, Wally Henry, was a member of the (also Madison CC based) 1986 World Bronze Medalist Team skipped by Steve Brown.
Needless to say, I think curling is a very *cool* sport--the next best thing to making music. Curling is a highly competative non-contact sport that relys on skill as much as physical strength and which can be played by people of all ages. Our youngest members are in high school and our oldest in their mid-eighties and all curl "side-by-side" weekly in league play. Here's a link to our club--enjoy. And if you live close to a curling facility, please give the sport a look. After all, musicians need a practice break every once in a while...............
http://www.madisoncurlingclub.com/
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Author: William
Date: 2003-10-14 15:11
(gulp, ahem..., that is November, not NovemEber...sorry--I can read music, jus kant spel gud))
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-10-14 15:21
Bob Gardner: That MUST be a tough life! I think you are spreading yourself too thin!
Henry
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Author: Mark P. Jasuta
Date: 2003-10-14 15:31
Model rocketry, Radio control modeling (planes and helicopters). Weight training, jogging, and bicycling, to keep fit. Helping my 2 daughters with their school work (a bigger job than I first thought).
Mark
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-10-14 16:11
We are an interesting group !! My prof. work and retiree hobbies include, chemistry [see below], patents, petroleum engineering, woodwinds, their playing and their mechanics, science/engr. in general. Am active in our library's bookstore, church, civic affairs, was never very good [size?] at sports, enjoyed very careful skiing in CO, watch it now [knees!]. Great life, tho, good sized family!! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-10-14 17:15
Collect model airliners, learn about aviation (I wanna hang out with Hank Lehrer and Mark Jasuta!), exercise, ride my bike, walk my dog, watch baseball (Go Cubs and Red Sox!), cheer cheer for old Notre Dame, and see movies with my wife.N
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-10-14 18:04
(posted thrice somehow....)
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-10-14 18:13
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Bike riding, in-line skating, and ice skating with my six year old neighbour (picture attached) who considers himself my personal trainer.
Woodworking (making sawdust is more accurate).
Travel.
I've just signed up to help the music teacher at the local elementary school.
Researching my family tree (I'm back to about 1750, found some interesting people).
Computing and reading this BB. Retirement is wonderful!
Hans
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Author: Clarinetpunk
Date: 2003-10-14 19:16
Eat, Sleep, Work and Play. heh...to broad?go to school, work, play in 2 groups. and when i have time to breathe, i go to shows, and run rc (remote control) cars with my dad (which btw is another easy way to sped all my money after clarinet hehe).
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2003-10-14 19:45
In no particular order, cycling, swimming, sky diving, photography, scuba diving, reading, flying, woodworking, shooting.
RW
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2003-10-14 23:09
History: music (want to learn as much as possible to get a vivid idea about what I'm doing for a living), 2:nd world war (want to learn about the mechanisms of evil to recognize it when I see it), my home town (want to know everything about what I see when I go to work or just hanging out), finding out more about my biological family (a lot of hidden secrets when being adopted).
Spending a lot of time at the railwaymuseum with my 5 year old, an obsession of his.
Baught a scuba diving course for my daughter and myself for her graduation. Hoping to do more of that. I'll be a great partner.
Alphie
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Author: Guido
Date: 2003-10-15 00:55
Being outside.
Climbing rock, paddling, hiking and backpacking in three seasons.
Backcountry and telemark skiing in winter. Travel.
I play clarinet outside often. I pack a cheapo (with a fine mouthpiece) atop mountains, and drybag one whenever canoeing. There's a clarinet in the trunk of the car throughout the year. It adds a half hour here and there to daily practice time, a "practice" I recommend.
Monday, for example, I let others shuttle the vehicles while I remained with the canoes at the put-in and take-out sites, playing 45 minute sets riverside in autumn foliage.
G
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-10-15 00:57
Is playing the clarinet during rutting season perilous? Can't imagine a mob of kangaroos being particularly impressed if I was to serenade them if I "went bush" (pardon my vernacular). (firmly with tongue in cheek).
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Author: wyatt
Date: 2003-10-15 01:15
Henry you are right i have to spend more time with the ladies. just don't know what to give up.
can't give up the clarinet
oh well i will think of something
i know --i'm going to give up (honey do) ( honey do this and honey do that)
good idea.
y
bob gardner}ÜJ
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Author: Meri
Date: 2003-10-15 16:34
Besides music, my serious hobbies are chess, cats, and tennis. Other minor ones include handwriting analysis, astrology (full chart interpretation), tangrams, and anagrams.
Meri
"There is a difference between being flat and sounding in tune, and being in tune but sounding flat. The first I can live with; the second I cannot."
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Author: Sue
Date: 2003-10-15 16:59
I make applique quilts, learning Tae Kwon Do and play golf.
Sue
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Author: CharmOne
Date: 2003-10-15 17:07
To Sue:
Golf was my summer sport, but I stopped since it was too cold to play during this fall season..
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-10-15 17:42
To Sue- Our daughter recently earned her black belt. but broke bones in her hand/wrist ?breaking bricks? Take care!! I do love reading of the many avocations and vocations. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-10-15 18:56
Promoting peace and ending world hunger.
Oh wait...... those are the interests of Miss Universe ...GBK ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
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Author: Joel Clifton
Date: 2003-10-15 21:18
While I absolutely LOVE playing the clarinet and want to be as good as a pro, I love writing music more. Back about six years ago I wrote a symphony when I knew little about orchestration, and I'm drastically reworking that. My more recent piece is finished (I've just begun writing out each instruments' parts as they would be played with the Finale score program, which will probably take a month or so). It was almost three years in the making. It's sort of mid to late romantic style, and runs 11 1/2 minutes. Right now I'm building up courage to show it to the composition professor and the conductor of the MUSO (Miami University Symphony Orchestra).
I'm also somewhat into guns. I know, music and guns is kind of a strange mixture. Target/skeet/competition shooting is very fun. I've never hunted though. I don't know if I could shoot an animal.
I kind of enjoy chemistry too, but just as a hobby - I don't really study it unless I have to to answer a burning question on my mind.
I used to be into astronomy, but while I still remember most of what I learned, I kind of dropped that for music about 10 years ago. I still enjoy watching meteors and looking at things with my telescope. Hayakutake and Hale-Bopp were one of the highlights of my life.
Other than that, lots and lots of little miscellaneous things.
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"You have to play just right to make dissonant music sound wrong in the right way"
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Author: Pam H.
Date: 2003-10-16 01:13
Gee, I don't have a LOT of free time outside of music and working full time. I also play the flute regularly, sax sometimes and piano not enough. I enjoy playing with my cat and am active at church.
My husband is into astronomy - so that sounds like a good price on that scope - William the Conquerer. I don't complain what he spends on scopes and ham radio stuff (Ralph K.) so I can have $ for instruments. Ray's license number is N8JLC. I wish I had more time to share his interests.
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Author: Ella
Date: 2003-10-16 20:18
Something I found really interesting when I was at music camp was that while there were plenty of excellent musicians there, almost no one sat around and talked about music all the time. But most of us were type-A personality people, and almost everyone there pursued more than one interest with passion. Personally, I'm a "film snob", a creative writer, a (lousy) composer, and a Physics nerd. Plus every Sunday between eight and nine pm I watch the Sopranos without fail, and Arthur when I get a chance. Add this to a one and a half hour minimum of daily practicing and my schedule if full.
Anyone who can hear screams, can also hear music.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2003-10-16 23:38
I've started teaching after 45 years doing something else.
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Author: Pam H.
Date: 2003-10-17 02:23
Ralph K - He used to play the organ at one time. Not much now though. He sometimes thinks about learning guitar. He really likes photography too. That's one of the things that we did together a lot when we were dating. Married 8 years, music geek again for the last 4 almost.
Ray says that at least I've learned to focus on one thing and stick with it. His hobby interests kinda float around from time to time.
Regards,
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2003-10-17 03:17
"Traditional" dancing - e.g., contradancing, English Country, International folk (Balkan), couple-dances, all of which I also play for, at least to some extent. Actually, playing for dancing is really my hobby - I don't play in community bands or groups that are strictly for performance to audiences.
Travel.
Eating:-)
Steve Epstein
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2003-10-17 03:35
Ok...I've gotta bite on this question...
Many many things:
knitting
spinning yarn (spindles and wheels)
my 2 new (I've had 'em a week) Kittens!
folk dancing (like Steve E. mostly Balkan)
language (I've studied German, French, and Italian, and have been trying to teach myself Bulgarian and Finnish)
sci-fi/fantasy
Buddhism and other spiritualities
Astrology
yoga
having a lot of fun being single again! (the divorce went through on the 3rd!!!)
all the best,
Katrina
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-10-17 16:48
Pam H,
Hobbies tend to float more for guys than for gals. Between gigs, when I really should be practicing, is when I tend to be on the radio more.
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Author: Music Geek3
Date: 2003-10-17 22:43
Besides the clarinet and music in general~NPR, sleeping, politics, photography, astronomy, writing, downhill skiing...........
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Author: Melissa
Date: 2003-10-18 00:57
Besides playing the clarinet I play the piano, flute, guitar, attempt the trumpet, percussion instruments, and I sing. I also TRY to compose, although I know nowhere near the amount of theory to write anything properly. I also tutor other students at my school for percussion and the clarinet. When I have time away from music I either take photos, write, read, or listen to music. Wow I think I just found out why my friends call me a music freak.
Melissa
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Author: marzi
Date: 2003-10-18 02:55
katrina, knitting and spinning for me too(my son raises sheep for 4-h)!
trying to learn piano, and keep up with 3 sons clubs and their music lessons. also want to learn violin or guitar . and still leave time for my clarinet of course.
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Author: Rachel
Date: 2003-10-18 04:27
Besides the clarinet, I play a few other musical instruments, and compose. I also like reading, painting, drawing, playing video games, making games in Visual Basic, occasionally trying to learn languages, writing stories, the beach, thinking and seeing my friends, and also spending time by myself.
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Author: marzi
Date: 2003-10-18 13:49
katrina,
my son has cheviots, and i buy roving to spin to try different types of wool.
did i mention we also raise dairy goats on top of that? this means my
practice time definetely gets less in the summer!
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Author: OboeAtHeart
Date: 2003-10-18 16:48
Eeek. My interests... Hmm.
Well, when I'm not dawdling around in the bandroom in my soon to be four band classes, (Concert - Oboe, Symphonic - Clarinet/Eefer, Jazz - Bari Sax, and eventually Winter Percussion... no idea what I'm playing)....
or figuring out how to keep my Eefer and my Oboe in tune.
I write! Insessantly, poetry, music, working currently on a novel called Tranquility Base (yes, after the thing on the moon), I also do a bit of text-based Roleplaying (think D&D on computers with no graphics! Mad fun.), and I also like to draw quite a bit. My mom is an art history/English major, and my dad has a major in Computer Science.
(my art website, for your enjoyment and perusal.) http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/s/h/shadowraven/shadowraven.html
My other interests also include the International Baccalauriate (PIB) program at my High School, and I'm a 9th grader, so that, unfortunately, takes up a lot of the time that I would be practicing with senseless, homework. Whee. I like anime a bit too, which influences my style of artwork a bit. I also love playing soccer when I can, and fooling around with my band friends on off days when we're NOT having competitions. (Like the one I have today in about 4 hours... *sigh*)
I do a lot of reading as well, favourite authors are by far J.K Rowling and Tolkein! (L'Engle, Alexander, Dante, Homer, Dickens, Carroll.. ect. )
-Jenne.
*~"The clarinet, though appropriate to the expression of the most poetic ideas and sentiments, is really an epic instrument- the voice of heroic love."~*
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Author: Laura
Date: 2003-10-18 19:08
Pottery
Teach cycling
Exercise (yoga, walking, jogging, aerobics, kick boxing)
Design webpages
Collecting old books
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