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Author: Igloo Bob
Date: 2004-07-07 08:24
I do. My school-owned Bass I named Susan, my Soprano I named Tuba. Surely I'm not the only freak out there who names his instruments?
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2004-07-07 09:27
I named my Bb Harry, because Harry Sparnaay was visiting artist at the time I purchased it and he thought it was a nice instrument. Still nothing suitable for my A yet. No-one's inspiring me quite enough!
I think it's good to have a name for your instrument, because that feeling of closeness with it gives your playing a little more intimacy. A teacher once told me you've got to 'tame the beast' but I disagree - you've got to form a strong pertnership and together you'll make something special. I like to think I work with my instrument, I don't 'own' it or 'control' it.
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2004-07-07 09:39
I'm still thinking about a name for my new OpusII, but can't think of a name as beautiful as the sound....but it feels to me like Daisy (don't ask me why).
So you just witnessed the birth of Daisy. ![[toast]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley15.gif)
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2004-07-07 09:46
Forgot to mention:
Visiting hours are from 13:00 - 15:00. Gifts are welcome, but we prefer money.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2004-07-07 10:16
i don't think my names are that original but here they are anyway. my bass clarinet is called 'clarnibass' - like my handle here. my Bb clarinet is called 'clarni'. soon to join them (i hope) is either an alto or a clarinet in La.
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Author: jo.clarinet
Date: 2004-07-07 10:26
I don't name my clarinets, but have been known to stroke them and murmur nice things to them after a particularly good session...........
Joanna Brown
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-07-07 13:09
I usually call mine "Dammit." Especially after flubbing a tough passage.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: SuzyQ
Date: 2004-07-07 13:15
Of course! How could they not be named?
My clarinet is S. Morgan Clarintone or rather S. Morgan for short.
She is very moody, though often her mood is most cheery.
My bass clarinet or "my baby" is named Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins is very even tempared, and complains little.
He is named after a character in a movie I watched wherin a bass clarinet was played in the backround every time he came on scene.
And yes, I talk to them all the time. ~
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Author: Dori
Date: 2004-07-07 17:57
Of course there is nothing wrong with naming your instrument. I know a very good oboe player who named his oboe and english horn "Claude" and "Irving" (or was it the other way around?).
When I bought my Bb in 1970 I was calling everything "Junior" and the name stuck. I recently got an Eb and couldn't come up with a name until "Elsie" popped into my mind. Then I realized it stood for L. C. as in Little Clarinet. After that lame story, no one should feel silly naming their intrument. FWIW, I am old enough to have a son (tuba player) entering high school in September.
Dori
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Author: AET
Date: 2004-07-07 20:04
My old R-13's name is Barry Tuke; he's canadian. He loves to do great things... but can't always.
My Selmer is Gary; He's a Polish Jew. Who isn't very bright.
My Concerto II's name is Japetto Concerto; He's Italian. Might I add, very snooty. : )
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2004-07-07 20:06
Nope - we took away their names and gave them serial numbers long ago.
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-07-07 20:40
My Bb's name has always just been Buffet. :-P So creative.
But, I named my Bundy Karenette after an old friend... cuz it's dirty and sucks. Obvioulsy when I named it, my friend and I weren't getting along.
My old "Dexter" (in otherwords, a cheapo no-name) that someone gave me, I named Condemned... cuz that thing shouldn't be played.
My new old Buffet Continentale A clarinet I named Doughnut. Like a continentale breakfast.
And my parakeet's name is Perdo.
--CG
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Author: Igloo Bob
Date: 2004-07-07 20:59
I'm thinking of buying a $5 garage sale Clarinet and naming it after my band director.
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-07-08 01:26
My e-flat soprano I sometimes call "satan" or "little bastard" ... but hey, you asked.
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Author: clarinetstudent258
Date: 2004-07-08 02:30
i can't find a good name for my r-13, but for my marching horn...it's a bundy so i call it bundy. lame, i know. my friend named his e-11 melody. i'll have to think more about it.
"music is love, music is life, without music, i would have neither..."
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-07-08 02:43
My new to me eefer is named Tina. As in "teeny" clarinet.
My Bb R13 is Buffy, the Selmer Full Boehm is Sally, and my A clarinet doesn't have a name. Maybe he's Norman.
The old C Albert horn doesn't have a name, nor does the metal Turkish G. I have a few more that are nameless too...including 2 flutes and pennywhistles...
Katrina
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Author: Snowy
Date: 2004-07-08 04:20
My Selmer 10s f/b which I purchased on 18th Jan 2001 is named "Sparky" - I guess after the magic piano.
Clarinet wise, it is the best thing ever to happen to me.
Snowy
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Author: Rachel
Date: 2004-07-08 05:02
My clarinet is either "Clarinet" or "Play properly, you stupid @%$@$% instrument". Occasionally it is "Don't DO this to me, this is an IMPORTANT AUDITION!!!!"
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Author: Topher
Date: 2004-07-08 14:17
My first bass was named Bruce, which seemed to be a pretty good name. My new 1180 needed a more sophisticated name, so it was christened Edmund. My soprano is Patricia, but more often "you sqeaky jerk." My baritone sax, while a school instrument, has been named by me and the other kid I share it with Chuck. I had been told that all my clarinet names sounded Irish, so I decided that my sax should be the oddball of the family.
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2004-07-08 14:53
Perhaps one should name
- their clarinet Mickey, because it squeaks
- their e-flat clarinet Minnie, because it's smaller and also squeaks
- their bassoon Donald, because of the quacking sound it makes
- their oboes Huey, Louie and Dewey, because they're just smaller, higher voiced versions of Donald
- their saxophone Goofy, well, because it's a saxophone.
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Author: MC
Date: 2004-07-09 12:17
I play in a wind trio -- clarinet, oboe, and bassoon. After a recent performance at a retirement community, a member of the audience came up to the group, pointed at the bassoon, and asked, "What do you call it?" Our bassoonist is used to these kinds of questions, and started in with her standard explanation: it's called a bassoon, it uses a double reed, and so on. "No, no," the lady interrupted. "I know it's a bassoon. I just wondered what its name was." As it turns out, our bassoonist doesn't name her instruments -- at least, not with names that can be shared with the audience.
For the record, my clarinets do have names:
Selmer 10 Bb (nearly 30 years old and still going strong) -- Clara
Selmer Signature Bb -- Benny
Selmer Signature A -- Artie
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Author: contragirl
Date: 2004-07-09 13:53
There was a "secret" that my sister's french horn was having an affair with her friend's bassoon without their knowledge. :-O
--CG
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Author: Camanda
Date: 2004-07-09 18:42
I named my Selmer soprano clarinet Constantine. My tenor sax is Charlemagne and my violin is Nero. I finally named the bass clarinet Marcus Aurelius about two weeks ago, though I have nicknamed it "Hostilian" because it won't play when I want it to.
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Author: LostJitterBugg
Date: 2004-07-09 20:32
I never named mine but I call it my baby and I like to hold it like a baby and talk to it and stroke it and tell it how good it is to me and what not...but when he makes me mad I say "damn it" so I guess its baby and his nicname is damn it...
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Author: Henry
Date: 2004-07-09 21:56
Have I named my clarinet yet?
I've thought of it, but I'm not quite set.
It is a female; that's for sure!
She ravishes my embouchure!
Her name could be "No, no, Nanette"!
(After all, she's French!)
Henry
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Author: Melissa
Date: 2004-07-09 23:04
Telling the names of all my instruments would take decades but on a similar note if I ever have two daugthers their names will be Claire and Annette.... how long do you think it will take them to realise that I named them after an instrument?
"Clarie, Annette come in here now!" "Ok mo.... Oh, My, God..."
Melissa
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-07-09 23:37
A name for your horn? Not absurd.
For some, it's entirely preferred.
With my old Buffet,
When it doesn't play,
I find a choice four letter word ...GBK
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Author: bill28099
Date: 2004-07-10 00:53
Name my horns, naaa, half the time I can't remember how many I have (12 +/- 1 at the moment) or where I put them, under the bed, under the sofa, at the apartment, at the house or at the repair shop. If they had names I'd have to write a list and stick it on the computer workstation so I could remember them.
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask.
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Author: Avie
Date: 2004-07-11 02:20
Naming your horn is great. When I am very frustrated playing my clarinet I am libel to fly off and say son of a boom, son of a bang *#%$#** but my clarinet knows that it is only my way of venting my frustrations and I will be back for more.
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2004-07-13 02:26
LOL, GBK!!!
I don't name my clarinet although the make of my flute is Emerson, this "his name is Emerson!"
This is a related by true story. One of my old clarinet teachers used to play clarinet in the local (small town PA) symphony and also taught many kids on every woodwind. Anyway, on the day after she was a soloist with the symphony, she delivered a baby girl and named her---please swallow all liquids before continuing----"Claire Annette." No, I'm not kidding.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-07-13 07:29
Observing as this thread gets longer, I can't help but wonder this 'naming your clarinet' has something to do with culture. I don't know whether any poster above comes from Asia, but I seriously doubt any body -pros or amateurs - in Korea would see the need to name his/her clarinet..??
Perhaps I might have asked the question to one of Korean clarinet BBoards that I frequent..
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-07-13 22:15
"Anyong asayo" to you, claclaws, you're probably right there (I'm not asian, by the way) ... maybe the majority of people don't name their instruments ... just think they do? "komnsah midah".
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Author: Avie
Date: 2004-07-13 23:58
I knew a big time Mets fan that named his boy Shea after Shea Stadium. I also knew a guy that called his car Blackie. Why not name your clarinet!
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Author: florizell
Date: 2004-07-14 04:40
Heaps of my friends name their instruments, so when i bought my new R13, i sort out a name to suit. "Florizell" was my choice, hence my user name!
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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2004-07-14 06:53
YES! I thought I was the only one... My clarinet teacher made fun of me for naming my instrument :P... hahaha.... well I have three clarinets... two are wood, one is plastic... All Bb... One I call Larry (wood), the other I call Woody (wood), and the other I call Benny (plastic). HAHA! But it's cool that all of y'all name your instruments!
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Author: music_is_life
Date: 2005-03-05 19:29
I tried claire for my Bb...then clairy...then 'the clar' (kl-are), but nothing really worked for me. It's nameless as of now. The Eb has been named 'the effer' and my friend named her Bb 'the beefer'. Sometimes we call the effer or the piccalo flute "torture device"- that one came from our band director, for obvious reasons. We also call it "baby" or the 'toy'. The bass is called either 'the beast' or 'the subwoofer'.
I'm still thinking... I'm pretty sure my Bb is a girl though...maybe it'd play better if I started talking to it? or perhaps the men in white coats would pay me a visit...
p.s.- this made for a great laugh. lol. I love the "Clare Annette" stories. lol. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
-Lindsie
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Author: ned
Date: 2005-03-05 22:20
I have this long skinny black tubular thing, with metal buttons on it and I call it ''clarinet''.
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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2005-03-05 22:50
I have just recently bought a new E-11 clarinet, and as the first thing I am playing with it is my High Schools production of Fiddler on the Roof (which is awsome by the way), I have decided to name my clarinet Tevye.
Steve
"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly."
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Author: Aussiegirl
Date: 2005-03-06 00:04
Yes! My R13 is called Percival, or Percy for short, it was a long car trip home after purchasing the instrument that drove us to it! Our school bari sax was christened Larry, only because the other high school in the area called theirs Barry. A saxophonist friend and I decided that it was a crime that our tuba playing friend didnt have a name for his instrument, considering the amount of time he spends with it rivals the amount of time he spends with us! He said he wouldnt name it, so we did. now introducing Booba the tuba and Iacuras, i know how awesome the music for Fiddler is, i played in my school's production a few years ago and got very daunted by the Bottle Dance!
Ps Floriell, are you Jillian by any chance?
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Author: Contra
Date: 2005-03-06 19:31
My hybrid Vito is called Frankenclarinet. My Eb contrabass is called No One's Getting Me After He Graduates. My alto sax is I Don't Like Low Notes. And my Accordion is Squeezy.
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Author: jArius
Date: 2005-03-06 23:51
You guys are crazy... lol
Jeremy Bruins
Proud member of the too-much-time-on-my-hands club.
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Author: fredackerman
Date: 2005-03-07 01:18
Never occurred to me to name the horns but now that I see how silly you guys are.. think I'll join in: Moe, Larry & Curly are apropos for my unique style
Fred
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Author: Aussiegirl
Date: 2005-03-07 04:48
Bradley...
i have no idea why i called my clarinet percival, it just happened and it was along and boring car trip...how did you arrive at the name?
And i though of another one...my friend's very nice violin is called Victor.
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Author: reedidia
Date: 2005-03-07 08:03
I just got an old Jupiter clarinet as a gift and for now hisher name is Jupiter. Sher takes me to Mars Venus and Saturn and tickles my uranus(not too sorry for the low humor)
reedidia
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Author: clarispark
Date: 2005-03-07 10:25
My B-flat is called Pierre Noblet, and the E-flat I borrow from the school is named Ellie Selmer, just because I took the instrument make as the last name. My entire section refers to my B-flat as Pierre...my band director calls my E-flat either Ellie or "that damn E-flat".
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Author: chipper
Date: 2005-03-07 13:01
Link to a name site with a search engine by description. ie:choose a search criteria like "wind" and it comes up with some pretty names. http://www.behindthename.com/
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