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Author: rsholmes
Date: 2007-06-04 17:37
What's under your seat -- or in your pocket, on your music stand, or otherwise within reach -- at orchestra/band rehearsals and performances?
Most likely: mouthpiece cap, reeds, swab, pencil. What else?
And what's it in? A compartment of your clarinet case? Ziploc bag? Something else?
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-06-04 18:36
To "kick off" our packrat disclosures, here's mine. Playing alto cl and sharing my good Selmer bass cl with our #2 conductor, I have usually have my or his [capped] bass mp ready to go, and when on bass, often put my alto under the chair. At times a cassette copy of music we are playing, a US patent or 2 on cls or saxes [for cl f[r]iends], plus what rsh suggests as minimum, an extra pair of glasses, and if on an outdoor concert, a plastic bottle of water [NOT Vodka}. What have I left out ?? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-06-04 18:43
The cap hangs on one of the music stand screws. Under my seat is the case with whatever's not in my hand (instrument) or on the stand (pencil). Round my neck is the cord with the earplugs.
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Ben
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Author: gwie
Date: 2007-06-04 19:02
I usually have, in addition to my instruments, a bag of "Kettle Chips," a teriyaki chicken bowl, coffee with extra cream, assorted bars of dark chocolate, IBC root beer, and tangerine juice.
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Author: Jhall
Date: 2007-06-04 19:02
Small electronic tuner/metronome, extra black bow tie, extra mouthpiece, Tylenol.
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Author: donald
Date: 2007-06-04 19:33
uner my seat? someone stuck chewing gum there about 20 years ago. Over the years it has been proven a bad thing to look too closely at what's under the seat- one time wandering fingers found... er... nose pickings. That was gross
donald
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Author: A1tissimo
Date: 2007-06-04 21:27
Water bottle, napkins (for spit - gag!), extra reeds, pencil... when I don't have any pockets sometimes I keep my cell phone in my case. (Bad idea!) It hasn't been stolen yet, but someday it'll happen, I bet.
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2007-06-04 21:29
Could have been a raisin donald !
Nothing under MY seat, but I occasionally deposit a worn pad under the seat of any of my section colleagues. Then, just 5 mins before we start, a subtle tap on the shoulder a questioning look and a finger swept in the general direction of the evil object, can be guaranteed to drain the colour from even the most suntanned of cheeks.
This, however, does not pay off in the long turn, as the progenitor of these heinous acts has to ;
a) look over shoulder at all times....
b) be able to take as well as get, bigtime.
RT (ducking)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-06-04 21:43
Velly good, bob49t, just hadn't thot of a "dirty tricks" false-alarm, BUT, I may try it on my "next seat player" , a poor tenor saxer, when he garbles up the band. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2007-06-04 22:30
An old dog, asking for a Scooby Snack
Also a book....The God Delusion by Richard Hawkins.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: claritoot26
Date: 2007-06-04 22:31
Extra reeds in ziploc baggie. Custom made musicians' Earplugs (used only occasionally depending on the room and where I'm sitting). Swab. Tuner. Pencil. Mouthpiece cap stays in case. I don't really use it until I put it away. Spare mouthpiece and ligature. Probably should be a screwdriver, but there isn't. Ez-o stuff to put over my front bottom teeth. Neckstrap. The swab, reeds, pencil, neckstrap, and the Ez-o piece that I'm using stay out, everything else is in the case.
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-06-04 23:05
All Right! Vague question! Let's see my foots under my chair, there's some dust bunnies here and there. and a t shirt from yesturday.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: Max S-D
Date: 2007-06-05 01:51
Usually extra reeds, my swab, a tuner and a bottle of water. I just played in the pit orchestra for "The Magic Flute," in which the clarinet plays in about half of the movements in the opera, and found that if I didn't bring a book, I would go insane, so lately books. Lots of them. I've read more books in the last two months than I had in the 6 months building up to them (assigned reading for class excepted - the main reason I don't have much time to read for pleasure anymore).
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Author: John O'Janpa
Date: 2007-06-05 15:57
Clarinet stand, mouthpiece cap, pencil, spare reeds, and forearm crutches.
For rehearsals add minidisc recorder.
For four hours of graduation ceremonies add books, Ipod, and vitamin "M".
Not too far away, backpack, with repair kit, screw drivers, spare mouthpiece, spare ligature, clarinet case, cork grease, swab, tuner, etc., etc.
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2007-06-05 16:50
Just thought of another one I've used.
A small rubber shoe insole. Why ? Answers on a post card to....no no..
Any clues ?? Just let's say its VERY useful.
RT
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Author: MichaelR
Date: 2007-06-05 18:05
bob49t wrote:
> A small rubber shoe insole. Why ? Answers on a post card
> to....no no..
Put under the short leg so your chair doesn't rock back and forth.
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Michael of Portland, OR
Be Appropriate and Follow Your Curiosity
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2007-06-06 06:28
No Michael..... it's to slip sneakily under the tapping foot of our 2nd flute, when she gets a nasty semiquaver passage. Would be alright if she was exactly in time but she's all over the shop. Now, we have an orthopaedic surgeon on viola. Might tip him a fiver to see what he can do.
RT
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-06-06 12:16
What is it with people who tap their feet out of synch with the beat? My husband doesn't tap audibly, but he does jiggle his knee off the count. I don't mean on the offbeats--I mean off the score completely. I don't understand how he keeps time when his body is doing that. His chamber music pals have to align themselves so they don't see his right knee, or he's liable to throw them off. I think if I had to sit next to him in a rehearsal, what I'd keep under my seat would be a rope, to tie his leg to his chair!
I don't play in public, but the things I keep within easy reach when practicing are a glass of water, extra reeds, a pull-through swab, a pencil with a good eraser, reading glasses for adjusting the reed (my eyes are at the awkward age: don't need glasses for reading the music but do need glasses for anything up close), cork grease, jeweler's screwdriver, spring hook, camera lens tissues (to blot water off the pads), Kleenex. I keep a support stand there, too, so that I can set the clarinet upright if I take a break, instead of laying the clarinet flat. Leaving it upright cuts down on water getting into the tone holes. Unfortunately, leaving it upright also puts the clarinet at the mercy of Ms. Shadow Cat, so I don't dare leave it unattended for long unless I pop it into a closet, stand and all, and close the door.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2007-06-06 12:53
I bring a LaVoz rack that fits on to my music stand..on it...swab..polishing cloth...reeds and a tuner. I think the tuner is pretty useful for tuning with players near by on some notes...etc
I don't tap my feet and when students progress begin to let them know that in a rehearsal with a group foot tapping can distract others...
David Dow
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