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Author: Roger
Date: 2002-03-19 11:34
My wife (flute) and I (clarinet) play in the community band here in Tallahasse. We gave a memorable concert last night.
First, one of the twitty little high school girls (who appointed herself flute section leader---she is not that good) decides that she needs her own stand. This leaves my wife and 2 other people to share a stand. My wife was on one end. Needless to say, the people on the ends on that stand did not play too much.
I also managed to leave my favorite reed at home; fortunately, I several playable reeds.
In the middle of the first number a roach (palmetto bug variety) flies down and lands on my music. It hangs around even as I move sheets of music and stays into the next number. I was worried I would mistake it for an accidental!
The above made the Spring Concert of the Capital City Band of Tallahassee Community College memorable for me and my wife.
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Author: Mitch A
Date: 2002-03-19 13:12
Ah, the joys of families sharing musical endeavors. My wife (clar, 18 mos.) joined the community band I've been playing with for three years (bari, 4 yrs).
Our youngest son, 11 on trumpet, has been playing for about two years, has been sitting in on rehearsals. While not up to performance level, he plays quite well.
If my 15 yo son (t-bone, 5 years) wasn't in five bands at high school, he'd be with us too.
Just before the first downbeat at one of last years' summer gazebo concerts, the trumpet section demonstrated the domino effect with their music stands. Five of them, a true comedy of errors. The audience applauded, our conductor took a bow, we never played better than that night.
Mitch
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Author: Bob
Date: 2002-03-19 13:23
Roger: Yes, the problem of stand sharing. I thought that maybe it was unique but I guess it is not. One of my "sharers" has a problem seeing the conductor adequately and likes to opt for her/his own stand occasionally. I have suggested that he/she could move down one chair but he/she doesn't share my enthusiasm for that option. I guess sharing is not a practice everyone agrees on. Oh, you can call them Palmetto bugs but they're still cockaroaches to me...haha.
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Author: RogerM
Date: 2002-03-19 13:29
By the way Iam now RogerM (to avoid confusion with "the other Roger")
The joys of family music extend to other stand problems. People like me who in their late 40's started to have to wear trifocals really have problems sharing stands with each other. There is a certain height range in which the music must remain to be read by our glasses. This makes for fun (and more stands) in an adult group.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-03-19 15:24
Well said, both Roger and RogerM. In our spring-summer-fall outdoors concerts it can be fun here too. R #1, does Dan Oberlin play with y'all? Fine cl'ist, grew up with our kids! Re: stands, and glasses, thats why I dearly love playing [the only] bass and/or alto cl, even with my special 6 ft focal length glasses [single lens], they allow reasonable vision of both conductor and music! Don
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Author: Jean Adler
Date: 2002-03-19 21:03
I just tell the younger players that my middle aged eyes require I have my own stand. No one ever argues that point with me, especially someone young enough to be my kid. If I wear my glasses (not yet needing bi-focals) I can't see the conductor. Consequently my stand is several feet away so I can see the music AND the conductor. AHH, the joys of getting old(er).
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