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 Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:05 pm
never twirl your flute...you are most likely to drop it and the bang and dent it all up
its happened to me crying
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:57 am
never drop any instrument on bleachers ( they tend to roll down the bleachers) never stop randomly in front of a bass drum. they cant see you and u will get hit and it hurts!!!( didnt happen to me, someone in the clarinet section) and, if u have leg problems, dont march with the biggest bass drum
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:22 pm
So, clarinets don't do well in swordfights, and reeds do break when you leave your clarinet on the ground!!!
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:46 pm
Dancesvithmonkeys Never try to hide the pieces of someone else's instrument. They will get lost! Never poke the marching instructor with your clarinet/flute/trombone while at attention. omg this happened to me!! never let your friends play "hide the ligature" lol poor clary was never the same.....
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:18 pm
mr-miserable never hold you clarinet regaular cause it will randomly fall in half (wait does that only happen to me) never get a drummer mad at you cause well they have drumsticks. never bein the front of a line goin fowards backwards (if you understand that) and fall becuase your friends will laigh and trample you and your instrument my clarinet falls apart on me all of the time! it is sooo annoying
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:07 pm
mr-miserable never hold you clarinet regaular cause it will randomly fall in half (wait does that only happen to me) never get a drummer mad at you cause well they have drumsticks. never bein the front of a line goin fowards backwards (if you understand that) and fall becuase your friends will laigh and trample you and your instrument
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:21 am
If you get mad, don't throw the xylophone across the football feild. It barely survived last time!
True story lol...the former pit section leader lost his temper and managed to chuck a full sized xylophone across the feild.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:11 pm
Never play the cowbell in a parade. You will look like an idiot, granted that you are in uniform.
Never claim that you actually can slide through a broken snare.
Never tell people that you horde Dr. Pepper.
Never hide broken mallets from your pit director. You will end up dead. Especially if they are the new 60s that he just bought for the collective pit.
Never let a freshman handle the heavier pit instruments. Somebody will end up crushed (literally).
Never drop a cymbal on asphalt. There will be a bit of a dent in it afterward, if it survives.
Never leave a marimba out in the rain. Sadly, it's a true story.
Never let a ditz handle the transport of the vibraphone.
Never leave the keyboard in the cold. The plastic gets brittle and then it breaks.
Never let a quad player try to play the vibraphone. The ones I have encountered have used the wrong mallets. Guess what??? They dented the keys.
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:34 pm
NEVER PUT OTHER INSTRUMENTS ON TOP OF MALLET INSTRUMENTS.
THEY ARE NOT TABLES! They have feelings too.... sad
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:39 pm
crazychick6692 mr-miserable never hold you clarinet regaular cause it will randomly fall in half (wait does that only happen to me) never get a drummer mad at you cause well they have drumsticks. never bein the front of a line goin fowards backwards (if you understand that) and fall becuase your friends will laigh and trample you and your instrument my clarinet falls apart on me all of the time! it is sooo annoying You both need to get your instruments to a repair shop before they get permanently damaged. Clarinet joints that are too loose or too tight are bad for the body of the instrument. Your's need's new tenon corks asap. If your shop doesn't handle a lot of instruments, you might be able to get same day service if the tenon corks are the only problem becuase that's a repair that takes literally half-an-hour (I used to spend all day at work going through boxes of a hundred rental clarinets and doing just tenon corks at seven minutes per). It's the waiting in the queue of other instruments that takes the most time.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:33 pm
B e c k a r c h Never play the cowbell in a parade. You will look like an idiot, granted that you are in uniform.
Never claim that you actually can slide through a broken snare.
Never tell people that you horde Dr. Pepper.
Never hide broken mallets from your pit director. You will end up dead. Especially if they are the new 60s that he just bought for the collective pit.
Never let a freshman handle the heavier pit instruments. Somebody will end up crushed (literally).
Never drop a cymbal on asphalt. There will be a bit of a dent in it afterward, if it survives.
Never leave a marimba out in the rain. Sadly, it's a true story.
Never let a ditz handle the transport of the vibraphone.
Never leave the keyboard in the cold. The plastic gets brittle and then it breaks.
Never let a quad player try to play the vibraphone. The ones I have encountered have used the wrong mallets. Guess what??? They dented the keys. Actually, it's the drumline members who are better with the pit instruments than us in pit are. That's kinda sad. XDD Never tell your director that you lost the triangle stick between the practice field and the football field...which are about 40 yards apart. >_> Also never tell him that the gate is locked to get on the field, and that the cars in front of it can't move...he'll make you try to lift the instruments over the fence. (stupid homecoming game...)
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:06 pm
Never let your friend see your instrument. Especially if it's different from what they play and you have some sort of audition coming up. (True story, my sax broke)
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:40 pm
Never hold your Euphonium loosely when your popping it up from carry to playing position it will fly out of your hands and dent (as a freshman found out last year)
Never put your book filled backpack on the edge of a high shelf above where your instrument your backpack will fall on it and kill it (one side of my section leaders euphonium bell was bent flat)
If your band director tells you to get something from a room that is locked and throws you the keys from the tower DO NOT TRY TO CATCH THEM FEAR THE KEYS! (my old director did this and the key where stuck in a girls hand)
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:02 pm
never try to run with a sousaphone on a windy day. they tend to act like kites and throw you back(this happened to me)
never drop a bass drum in a bleacher, they'll break (this happened to someone in our drum line right before we had to march in a game)
if you have no balance... don't try to run with a 35lb. sousaphone.
if your a clarinet not chew on your reeds... you'll find that you run out very quick.
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:03 pm
also dont let a flute touch a tuba
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