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Author: derf5585
Date: 2015-08-30 19:38
Ever go to a gig and forgot to bring an essential piece of equipment.
I was going to a concert and forgot my clarinet. Another time I forgot my music stand.
fsbsde@yahoo.com
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Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2015-08-30 20:08
Many years ago when I was working on my masters, I was taking a class and needed my clarinet that evening. The class was about 20 minutes from my house, and I was running late. After getting most of the way there, I remembered that I had taken my mouthpiece out of the case for some reason and left it behind. Fortunately, there was a music store nearby that was still open. I rushed in and bought a cheap plastic mouthpiece. It did the job.
When I was an undergrad, a professor told me a story about a famous clarinet player (it might have been Gervase de Peyer) who was doing a performance of the Stravinsky Octet. After the performance began, he realized he needed both his B-flat and his A, and he had only one of the two. I'm not sure what he did, but that couldn't have been easy music to transpose.
I seem to remember Ed Palanker sharing a great story a while back about an orchestral clarinet player who forgot (or neglected) to bring his E-flat while his orchestra was on tour. Ed, if you're reading this could you share the story again or provide the link?
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Author: kdk
Date: 2015-08-30 21:14
When I practice, I usually take my reed holder out of my clarinet case and put it on my desk. More than once, I've forgotten to put the reeds back when I put the clarinet away and have gotten to the next rehearsal with only the reed on my mouthpiece (for better or for worse).
I've forgotten to take my C clarinet with me to rehearsals when I had something to play on it and had to resort to the old-fashioned way of playing the part - transposing it.
I'm more careful when leaving for a performance - fortunately I can't remember ever getting to a concert missing anything except maybe the right tie (bow or long?).
Worse, though, is the recurring dream/nightmare I sometimes have (43 years after my discharge) of missing something - whether my instrument or my uniform or watching the bus pull away without me - on leaving for or arriving at an Army Field Band concert. It never happened to me when I was in the band, but I guess I was afraid enough of the consequences that it imprinted somewhere that to this day still comes out on occasion.
Karl
Karl
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-08-30 21:51
There was one gig where I left my music behind. It was only a 30 minute round trip by car......but I didn't have a car. Thankfully, a friend lent me an automobile for the retrieval. I am now much better at "idiot checks" prior to leaving for gigs.
...........Paul Aviles
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2015-08-30 23:35
Yes, one time I thought my bass clarinet was in my lock in our hall and didn't realize I didn't have it until I was walking into the hall. I forgot we had a runout the night before. I called my wife and she broke all the speed laws getting it to me. I actually had to play a set of arias on my clarinet in the wrong octave before It arrived, fortunately nothing exposed until the second half. It was very embarrassing to have to explain what I did to the guest conductor. Fortunatly I at least had my clarinets with me since I need them for one of the arias. Never again for sure.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: kenb
Date: 2015-08-31 02:06
For the peripatetic muso, it's Grim St.
Glasses, Reeds, Instruments, Music, Stand.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2015-08-31 03:58
Many years ago in London my wife and I boarded a taxi and found a cased oboe under the seat. Fortunately there was a card in the case with the owners name and address. I phoned the number and spoke to the mother of the owner, who said that her daughter, an orchestral player, had phoned her in tears to say that she'd lost her oboe. We were able to divert the taxi to where she was playing and get it to her before the performance (The Mikado, if I remember correctly) was due to begin. 45 years later we're still friends.
Tony F.
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2015-08-31 04:36
I have been known to forget my reed case sitting on my desk too, so I keep a secret reed that no one, NOT EVEN ME, knows about, hidden away in my case. It is actually a pretty decent reed that has served me well many times! At least I am not the only one who gets distracted from time to time.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: MSK
Date: 2015-08-31 04:56
One of my first concerts playing orchestra and therefore A as well as Bb we had an entire first half on Bb and entire 2nd half on A. I was pretty inexperienced at the time. I carefully swabbed out my Bb during intermission, put it in my case then reassembled the Bb and brought it back on stage instead of the A. I did 't realize my mistake until we started tuning. Most of the music for the second half had a Bb transposition attached to the A part - definitely a harrowing sight reading experience. Fortunately, my exposed solo was in the first half and went fine.
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Author: Hurstfarm
Date: 2015-08-31 13:59
After some hurried case swapping I once arrived at a rehearsal to find not only that my Bb was a hybrid of 2 instruments (a Peter Eaton and a B&H 1010), I also had no ligature. Luckily the sections fitted and the result was somewhat in tune. The second problem was solved "German style" by redeploying a shoelace. Cue much amusement from my unsympathetic clarinet colleague, but otherwise not entirely disastrous!
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Author: Mcrill
Date: 2015-08-31 17:37
In college, while on tour, I once left behind the school r13 I was using when we left a venue. They ended up shipping it back to the school, but luckily our next concert was a few hours from my home and my parents were able to bring down my old and battered Boosey & Hawkes. I've managed to never do anything like that again.
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Author: concertmaster3
Date: 2015-09-01 23:50
The principal flutist in an orchestra with whom I regularly sub forgot her flute. She was teaching lessons that afternoon before rehearsal, and had her flute on the stand. We got in the car, drove an hour to rehearsal, and then opened her case and realized the flute was still on the stand at home! Luckily the piccolo player had his flute, and wasn't using it.
This week, I was teaching lessons for Flute, Clarinet, Sax, Violin and Cello. Got to the store, and realized that I forgot the saxophone. Unfortunately, he was in a small fender-bender just before his lesson time, and I told him to not worry about it, and to take care of the legal matters.
I've also gone many times to play tenor sax, and forgot my harness and good reeds in my alto case (the one I play the most). I have a spare neck strap and reeds in the case, but it just wasn't the same.
Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-09-04 22:18
Circa 1969, I offered to play an interlude for one of our church youth choir songs on clarinet, director thought that was a nice idea. But the Sunday night I was to play, good clarinet was at school. So I had to use my marching clarinet shaped object (CSO). Went OK but I was not happy about it.
In 1971, I left my UH band uniform at school Thanksgiving weekend, so I just didn't go to the downtown Houston parade. And as I recall, I never said a word, and still got an "A", whew.
Decades later, I had to deliver trumpet(s) to high school a couple of days for one son or the other. Once I got a frantic call about trumpet parts, and I delivered them moments before the high school musical began, much to the relief of son and other (adult) trumpet player. Some things never change.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
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