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 Re: Mechanical Failure during a performance.
Author: Grabnerwg 
Date:   2010-01-06 02:25

Once, back when I was a student, I was playing the bass clarinet part to the Janacek "Mladi" sextet (wind quintet plus bass clarinet). During a performance my low Eb wouldn't speak. At the end of the movement I quietly tested the instrument, but with very poor results.

Suddenly there came a voice from the audience saying "If you are looking for the pad that fell off your bass clarinet, it is under your left foot"!

Needless to say I was a bit chagrined.

Recovering my composure, I asked if anyone in the audience had a lighter. One was produced and we chatted with the audience while I reseated the pad by heating up the glue. I got the low Eb working again and we continued the performance.

To date that has been my worst equipment failure during a performance!

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetxpress.com
1193 Bass Clarinet Center

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