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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2008-02-01 10:27
Dreamed last night that my Prestige Bb upper joint cracked from top to bottom. Didn't go all the way through the wood, but was pretty wide.
So I used it as an excuse to lobby my wife to get a Backun Legacy (in the dream). Don't remember what she said, probably no
(Now wondering how long it's going to be before I actually get one .........)
First time I ever dreamed about that.
Any other traumatic clarinet related dreams out there?
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2008-02-01 11:11
When I was in college in the 70s, I bought a Mark VI tenor sax. It's a 1955 vintage and was a dream for me. The only reoccuring nightmare I have is that the horn gets lost or stolen, and I run around looking for it, then wake up in a cold sweat....Freud could have had a field day with me ! By the way, I still play it and it's the only tenor I've ever owned.
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Author: larryb
Date: 2008-02-01 11:33
Although sometimes "a clarinet is just a clarinet," I don't think that's the case in your dream, David.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-02-01 11:40
DavidBlumberg wrote:
> Dreamed last night that my Prestige Bb upper joint cracked
> from top to bottom. Didn't go all the way through the wood,
> but was pretty wide.
> So I used it as an excuse to lobby my wife to get a
> Backun Legacy (in the dream). Don't remember what
> she said, probably no
Hmmm...
"Instrument" broken
Can't perform
Wife doesn't care
Maybe your dream wasn't about clarinets. ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ...GBK
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-02-01 12:22
GBK's killing time in the waiting room of the Curious Dr. Humpp....
![[yeah]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley17.gif)
I've never dreamed that my clarinet cracked, but I do have a recurring dream about the clarinet based on something that happened 45 years ago in California. One of my high school English teachers, Lurene Mattson (also the faculty advisor for our literary magazine), was an extremely talented teacher but also an extremely eccentric person, to the point where I suspect that, by clinical standards, she'd gone somewhat mad. Think of Professor Trelawney (Divinations) at Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Tiny, birdlike Mrs. Mattson, thin to the point of emaciation, lived alone. She played the harp semi-professionally on the side and subbed in THE FANTASTICKS when the show played San Francisco. During that time, the literary magazine staff met one night at her house, where she kept her enormous, gilded concert harp on a raised stage in her living room.
The vivid memory is of Mrs. Mattson letting us talk her into demonstrating her harp--her eyes rolling up in their sockets, her lips pursed, her head bobbing, her shoulders heaving with ecstasy. Watching, one feels equal parts fascinated, thrilled, impressed--and embarrassed for her. Then she springs to her feet and swoops around the room on her tiptoes in her embroidered Chinese silk slippers, with her gossamer shawl flapping like luna moth wings as she waves her bare, thin arms in wild arcs around her: "One must BECOME! One must become ONE with the IN-STRU-ment!"
So, in the dream, I play the clarinet. I become one with the clarinet. My fingers stiffen, my mouth around the mouthpiece slowly stiffens, until I am a statue carved of wood, and yet the music plays on.
Lelia
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Author: William
Date: 2008-02-01 15:01
I've often dreamed of arriving at the concert stage and discovering that my clarinets were not in the case. Then, there is the slow motion frenzy to find them.......and they are always just out of reach or sight.
My real-life nightmare, however, is realizing that I no longer always play as well as I did when younger and stronger. Last night at muni band was an example--"mushy" technique (all the right notes, but just not clean), tone quality without the usual depth and ring, reeds not working like they always used to....etc, etc, etc. What bothers me even farther is that I do not have the burning desire to practice to maintain or regain my waning skills and I am actually begining to dread rehearsals and concerts because I know I will disappoint myself and those around me. The whole idea of playng music just doesn't seem to be "fun" like it used to. Wondering if many or any of you older clarinetists are experiancng similar feelings and how you are coping with the maturation process?? How does a clarinetist like Stanley Drucker finally decide to "let it go"? Reginald Kell comes to mind as well.........
BTW, I don't think its "middle age crisis" or depression--I still like to do most other things--curl, travel, spend time at home with my wife, walk the dogs, volunteer at my old school, etc. It's just MUSIC..............(and those %$@#&% reeds, maybe).
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Author: clarinets1
Date: 2008-02-01 16:05
my scary clarinet dream involved my car, my clarinet, and a lot of water.
in my dream i had parked my car (a red Blazer) at the bottom of a hill, with my clarinet in the backseat behind the driver's seat. it started to rain, so i leave my car for a moment. when i come back, my car is flooded over in several feet of water. i am not concerned with my drowned car, i am concerned with my clarinet sitting inside the drowned car.
for the rest of the dream i go berserk and panic about how i can save my clarinet from its watery grave and whether or not waterlogged clarinets can be repaired. (can they, by the way?)
then i wake up and see my beloved instrument is next to my bed, safe and dry.
whew!
JK
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2008-02-01 16:11
OMG, that part about having to play a multi-colored clarinet! That's really, really scary!
Bob Phillips
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Author: samohan245
Date: 2008-02-01 18:15
when i first started playing clarinet i dreamed that the upper body of my clarinet broke straight off!!!
same thing happened to my teachers clarinet
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2008-02-01 18:51
Reason I had the dream is that just yesterday I was riding my student for having had her humistat dry out. The next student who came in I showed her what not using a humidifier and not swabbing does to a Clarinet (her wooden yamaha clarinet had 5 cracks in it from before she started lessons with me) - and the Backun Legacy I just saw the day before that at Sam Ash.
Then again, my wife has had to sleep in the other room for the past 2 nights due to a brand new leaking sleep number bed.
Guess it all set me up for that dream .......
I'll put 2 cents in the pot ......
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Author: ChrisArcand
Date: 2008-02-02 00:25
No no, I'm afraid I have you all beat. I'll tell the dream as if a story:
You go to play your clarinets, thinking "Oh yes, I can't wait to play those babies." As you open your case, BEHOLD! The mouthpiece destroyed and the upper joint split into many pieces, you scream in terror at the horrible sight that you see! You are so scre-
FLASH
You wake up. Thank God. Just a dream. Just to be safe however, and to make you feel better, you get out of bed and go to your clarinet case. As you open it, ready to see your clarinets perfectly fine (because it was just a dream after all)
BEHOLD! Your bell is cracked down the middle, a joint is missing, one of the rails on your mouthpiece(s) gone, etc!
NO! IT WASNT A DREAM!!
Flash.
Thank God. It was a dream dreaming about your clarinets being broken. (This time when you go to check your case, everything is perfect :-D )
Now THAT'S messed up for you.
CA
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2008-02-02 01:49
My clarinets crack whether I dream about them or not. I'd much rather dream about girls.
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: swkeess
Date: 2008-02-02 03:31
I have performance nightmares: running late to a performance only to find that I don't have a chair reserved, fighting to sit down in the wrong place (usually in front of trumpets), trying to set up my music stand to find that I have only the bottom part, not the top part. Then I turn to setting up my bass clarinet and discover that (a) I have lost the mouthpiece or (b) the ligature no longer fits and the reed keeps sliding off or (c) I have forgotten all of my music and no one will share their music with me. The closer I come to a concert, the worse the dreams become.
Susan Keess
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-02-02 06:15
"My clarinets crack whether I dream about them or not. I'd much rather dream about girls."
HERE HERE!
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2008-02-02 06:37
I dreamed once about my clarinet cracked into pieces(all parts) and when I looked up in a dream book the only connection I could find was that if you dream about clarinet it means that you are going to be a good pianist. I've took 4th grade on piano but it's about 7 years since I was learning the piano and today I'm long way in my clarinet studies.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-02-02 13:32
>>BEHOLD! Your bell is cracked down the middle, a joint is missing, one of the rails on your mouthpiece(s) gone, etc!
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>>NO! IT WASNT A DREAM!!
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When Shadow Cat has that dream, it's not a nightmare.
Lelia
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2008-02-02 19:18
<<Then again, my wife has had to sleep in the other room for the past 2 nights due to a brand new leaking sleep number bed.>>
David, Is your number.......R13?
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: Avie
Date: 2008-02-02 21:18
I did have a few nightmares after I saw my clarinet was cracked. ![[huh]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie11.gif)
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