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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:34 pm
I play tuba, and one day in band practice my tuba starts making really messed up sounds, kind of like it's muted, I looking inside and I can't see anything. A week later it's still making the noises AND it's leaking way more than it should. The next day in Dixie practice my friends shows his hand all the way down the bell for fun, then snatches it back because he felt something 'weird'. I put my hand in, and pull out a water bottle! It had been stuck in there for 2 weeks and I still don't know how it got there.
I also so someone but a tuba in the middle of an aisle on a bus in a soft case. When the bus came to a sudden stop, the tuba went flying and the bell got completely crushed when it slid all the way to the front of the bus.
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:46 pm
I was in the Seventh or Sixth grade(I have Graduated Highschool now)but I forgot to latch my Clarinet case closed so when I got out of the car and picked it up by the handle Most of the pieces fell out. I was so freaked! It was so close to festival too! I looked at it later and it seemed like it had just been really scratched and a metal part by the upper keys was almost sanded off cause if you accidently ran your finger across it You would actually cut yourself on it. It still played thank god! It's still scratched from that incident though. I did show it and explained this same story to my band teacher and we both made sure it played. That was a big concern was that I had really broken it. I do laugh about it now because the look on my face had to be really bad.
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:01 pm
My flute is crap, but thank goodness I haven't broken it... yet. XD
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:49 am
Freshman year, right when I started oboe, I was borrowing one from a college near by and I thought it was plastic, but it was wood and it cracked. sweatdrop
Also, a month ago I dropped my oboe, thought it wasn't too bad, then wondered why it wasn't playing. Turns out that I had bashed one of the struts pretty bad. And it was right before tryouts too. Ouch! crying
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:10 pm
You're gonna like this...
Okay, first day of beginning band in 7th grade.
I horribly screech out a scale on my alto sax and wait for the teacher to give us the okay to pack up, but lord and behold I forgot to latch my case shut. So when I stand up all two thousand dollar pieces go flying across the tile. Everyone started laughing and jeering, and my band directer just kinda stared for a minute and said "That's not good" and went into his office.
I broke a few keys off... sweatdrop
And that's how I was introduced into the band world.
I've improved a little since then, being first chair alto, but my clumsyness is definitly still there.
-lawler xd
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:38 pm
THIS YEAR DURING MARCHING BAND PRACTICE :O
Ok we were doing warm ups on our football field
Yeah we arent allowed to walk on the field, so after we did slides, I was running back and this random ditch came out of nowhere (fake grass having ditches wtf?) and I fell on my BRAND NEW 3 WEEK OLD F ATTATCHEMENT TROMBONE OMFG I WAS SSOOOOOO MAD AT MYSELF
I also sprained my wrist.. >.< xD But hey that trombone was stupid when It came in it already had a dent and an air leak xD
FAWK THAT TROMBONE I DON'T LIKE IT
I didn't do it on purpose xD
I like my tenor better
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:16 pm
Last year I flung my arms into the air and half my clarinet went flying under the bleachers ....Oh yeah that sucked, Also my thumb pieces keep coming off sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:27 pm
I haven't broken my instrument, but my band director has. So one day my instrument wasn't working quite right, so i took it up to him, and he tried to fix it but he just made it worse. I ended up sending it in like the next week. I've never let him touch my instrument again. When i have an issue with my instrument that i think can be fixed i hand it over to our resident sax expert. (at a high school) Okay, so he's only a Junior but he's got this REALLY REALLY nice horn, so he really understands the instrument.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:36 pm
lol freshman year. last marching competition of the season. finals. my clarnet wont play anything above C in the staff, so i give it to an upper classman (who shall remain nameless) to try to fix. he cant figure out wats wrong with it so he gives our director mr gary. unfortunately, hes gave it to him upside down by the bell and when mr gary went to take it, he MISSED and my poor, poor clarinet went tumbling to the ground (gravel). i pick it up and the reed is broken, the mouth peice is broken, my liggy is dented and half the keys are miss aligned crying ... i had to get a new one... stare
and this other time my an my friend were screwing around before practice next to one of the brand new mellofones (i dont play it therefore i cant spell it) anyway she pushes me off the chair and i land right on top of the horn. the bell was bent at a 130 degree angle... heads rolled for that one
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:43 pm
Okay. I am a flute player. I was leading sectionals for the 7th and 8th grade band at the end of my 8th grade year. (At the intermediate school they have a 'promotion' to high school for the 8th graders, we were having sectionals for that) Well, out of nowhere my flute falls out of my hands onto the concrete. It wouldn't play!!! I tell my parents, they take it to get it fixed. It turns out that my flute would have cost more to fix it than to just buy a new one, and my parents knew my flute was a piece of $#!t to start with so they bought me a new one. Thank God! I still don't know how it fell out of my hands. I can't believe I dropped it in the first place. I'm still teased about it to this day.
Well, anyway, me dropping my flute is better than what happened to my friends flute. The pep band was playing at a football game and there were little bratty kids playing football near where the band was on the track. My friend and I went to go get a drink so we set our flutes on our chairs and left and while we were gone the little kids' football hit my friend's flute and it went soaring in the air, did three 360 and landed on the ground in the dirt. Luckily it was completely unharmed other than a few minor scratches.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:08 pm
There was also a time when our director was going over attention and bringing your instrument to your mouth when she raised her hands. Well a flute snapped her flute up to her mouth and the foot joint went flying across the room.
Another time when we were just about to play at festival, a tenor sax's neck strap got stuck on a key and wouldn't come off, when they finally got that untangled the diretor stepped on the podium and so everybody's instrument snapped to attention...the barry sax's mouth piece flew across the stage...
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:30 pm
Our BD in middle school would get too into the music sometimes and he would hit his stand w/his baton. Once he hit it so hard that it snapped in to and the broken piece flew off and hit a flute play who in turn hit the girl next to her who made her flute hit the stand. lol
During marching season my BD counts us down to get to our sets and if ur not there by the time he's done counting or if ur the last one there, he'll make ur entire section run laps so he was counting once and I started running to my set of course and a few days before I had given him my clarinet to fix the cork in the middle cuz it kept going in on it's own but after I left it w/him it came out on it's own. (He's not a very good repairer...) So when I was running back my instrument came apart at the middle and the top half hit the parking lot....HARD.... I broke my VANDUREN MOUTHPIECE and fractured a lot of keys. My side Eb key didn't work for weeks until I finally got it fixed by a real repair man.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:23 am
Haha this guy Michael, he used to play the flute...he was the only guy in about 13 players so we alsays took the piss
Anyway, he stole my chair one day so naturally I grabbed it back off him. As I was sitting down, he moves it away and I ended up sitting on my flute.
Not Cool.
The end piece was completely screwed. Like on a 45 degree angle.
It was still in one piece though. I just pushed it back into the proper shape (I didn't want mum to see-she'd kill me). It was still in tune sweatdrop
Anyway, a couple of weeks later, my flute is sitting on my bed and (OMG) my mum sat on it and to this day she thinks she broke it. But I'll always blame Michael. lol
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:01 am
I was in seventh grade and someone dropped a soft drink on my flute. Corroded the pads and the springs. It died.
Accidentally sat on my piccolo -my picc went through a lot in marching band-. The Bb key stopped working. However, they say that whatever happened to my picc wasn't my fault.......so I don't know what happened to it...
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:50 am
Well...My first sax octive key broke. Took it to the shop and found out there was more to it than I thought. There was a manufactering problem with it. The dude who owned the shop wondered how I could play the thing. Luckally it was able to get replaced with no problem. Bad thing was this was before a consert. I've also have knocked over other peoples saxes on accident and they say I do it on purpose.
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