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Re: Leaving Your Instrument on a Stand

Author: Carson
Date: 2014-08-11 08:10

I'm leaving my horn put together on the stand now but doing it seems sacrilegious.

It's my original clarinet that I learned on. It was bought used when I was a kid.

It already had a split in the wood then and I asked my teacher what caused it. He said most likely leaving it put together and wet. I had the crack repaired by having a ring made to try and keep it from splitting further.

Now I'm doing this!

If I was sure I could get away with spending the money I would buy a cheap plastic clarinet that might stand up better to the abuse.

Still you do what you've got to.

I never really learned to play my clarinet. I learned to read music so I've been able to pretend I can play it but I never learned to just play the thing like I might do whistling.

I've had friends over the years that had a magical talent for just picking instruments up and getting them to play. For me it is taking work.

I've got it set up next to the television now. I can try and play along but not much success yet. One problem with that is that my playing is so far off pitch I can't pull out the barrel enough to get in key. Still it does give me tunes that worm their way into my head long enough I can sort of fake them later.

I'm no world-beater yet but I'm better now than when this experiment started.

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