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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-01-14 21:37
...kind of. Our favourite condition has been blessed with an entry in Wikipedia. I wonder when shrinks rig up their couches with music stands...
Do you know of any scientific research in this area? Or is ours just a variety of the age-old hunter-gatherer behaviour?
Just today I couldn't withstand the temptation to buy a Noblet Artist with silver-plated keywork. Sigh.
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Ben
Post Edited (2009-01-14 21:38)
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Author: BobD
Date: 2009-01-14 22:11
Well, the term might be relatively new but the condition is ancient as your age-old comment supposes. Bibliophiles represent one limb of the tree and I suspect Jay Leno's auto/bike collection is more than an investment. As a kid, for me it was marbles.
Bob Draznik
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-01-14 22:48
Ben, did you see the full Boehm Amati Eb clarinet on you-know-where recently?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2009-01-15 01:08
FB Eefer!!! OMG!!! Of course, I've got gas bad...but no $$ to fund...
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Author: David Niethamer
Date: 2009-01-15 03:20
So now when I say "I've got GAS" my wife won't know whether to hold her nose or hide the checkbook and credit cards!! ;-)
DN
David
niethamer@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/index.html
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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2009-01-15 07:54
I vote that we rename the problem CAS (Clarinet Acquisition Syndrome) which neatly suggests that CASS (Clarinet and Saxophone Society) is what you should join to either feed it or deal with it.
(disclaimer - I have no association with CASS other than as an on-off member and do not stand to gain in any way by an increase in numbers).
Vanessa.
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Author: allencole
Date: 2009-01-16 04:59
Now that's an ailment I don't usually associate with us. (or maybe it's because of the onerous repair/supply costs of doubling)
Now GUITAR players on the other hand....
Allen Cole
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2009-01-16 15:38
I'm beginning to suspect it's everybody who plays an instrument of any kind, and double it for the vocalists, who can't buy new larynxes (yet...) but can and do obsess endlessly over their physical condition: nutrition, sleeping habits, weight, exercise, etc..
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2009-01-16 18:57
Knitters often suffer from YAS (Yarn Acquisition Syndrome) which can lead to a situation known as SABLE (Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy).
Anyone here suffer from CABLE?
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Author: D
Date: 2009-01-16 20:05
An old work colleague of mine had seriously bad YAS. We worked in Mayfair in London and at least once a week she had to go visit the haberdashery dept in the big John Lewis nearby.
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Author: CarlT
Date: 2009-01-16 20:09
Can't resist this one. My "other" main hobby is woodworking, and I probably have 2 or 3 of every commonly used small tool there is when I really may not use even one for a year, or more. Normally though, table saws being the exception (I have two), I only have one of each of the larger shop tools...only because I don't have space to put them in my garage workshop.
Woodworkers have a favorite phrase when it comes to tools..."sliding down a slippery slope".
The worst of woodworker GAS people are what's commonly called Neanderthals...those that primarily only use hand tools (as opposed to power/corded tools). Talk about collectors...most Neanderthals have 15 or 20, or more, hand planes, and they proceed to brag about whose ancient Stanley plane is the best, etc, etc.
CarlT
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-01-16 20:22
CarlT wrote:
> Talk about collectors...most
> Neanderthals have 15 or 20, or more, hand planes, and they
> proceed to brag about whose ancient Stanley plane is the best,
> etc, etc.
The only way you'd get me to give up my grandfather's #62 is to pry it out of my cold, dead hands ...
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2009-01-17 16:08
RS Holmes wrote,
>Knitters often suffer from YAS (Yarn Acquisition Syndrome) which can lead to a situation known as SABLE (Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy).>
Similarly: FAS and associated FABLE (Fabric Aquisition Beyond Life Expectancy). Inherited that syndrome from my mother.
Mark Charette wrote,
>>The only way you'd get me to give up my grandfather's #62 is to pry it out of my cold, dead hands ...
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I feel the same way about my reconditioned 1957 Bernina 730 sewing machine. It'll just about sew through a brick.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-01-17 16:23
I feel the same way about my reconditioned 1957 Bernina 730 sewing machine. It'll just about sew through a brick.
Now these clothes I wanna see...
(Bernina household here too. Built like tanks)
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Ben
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Author: Lee
Date: 2009-01-17 19:51
If you think that clarinetist are bad you should see my son-in-law. He fishes and must have over 30 rods mostly indistinguishable from one another and at least a reel for each to say nothing of the lures which must amount to over 100. Just to go fishing in a local pond for an hour he takes at least 5 rods.
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Author: chris moffatt
Date: 2009-01-28 23:55
I'm with you Malcolm - I use ALL of that stuff; the clarinets, saxes, the cameras (multiple film and digital), the synthesizers, mixers, line amps, computers and esp. the guitars & stuff. we ned all of it. obsessive compulsive indeed! Pshaw!!!
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