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Re: Clarinets and Concrete

Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2013-11-05 12:42

I don't have any good clarinet and concrete stories, but I have a couple good ones involving saxophones and cement/concrete.

In my first year of public school teaching in the 70s, I was teaching elementary band in a basement room with no windows and a cement (or concrete?) floor. A student came to class for the first time with a new sax. He opened the case, took out his instrument, and promptly dropped it on the floor. There was quite a dent in the bow (the bottom part that connects the body to the bell), but fortunately for him, the sax still played. If I remember correctly, he only played for a few months before giving it up.

The second story has been shared before, but it's been a while. In college, I played tenor sax in marching band and had a wonderful Couf hard rubber mouthpiece. We were coming off the field one day, and somehow, my sax came off the neckstrap and fell on a concrete sidewalk. There was a little damage to the sax (although it still played), but the mouthpiece was a goner. I went on to buy other mouthpieces for it, but none were as good as that original Couf.

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