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How to kill a rat with an oboe (aka high school band instrument disposal)

jhdouglas59 #77 How many of you still have your old DHS band instruments? I can't find my oboe, but I think I may have destroyed it when killing a rat with it. What's your story (real or fake) as to what happened to your old band instrument? Or do any of you have any memorable recollections of good or bad band experiences? My recall is when we played the Egmont Overture and I had the oboe solo part. After all the preludes, crescendoes, or whatever I was about to make my solo presentation and then I choked. I think it was dead silence for a while until the rest of the band picked up the pieces and continued playing. Thanks for your help. And the band played on. Anyone else have a story? Let me know. The weaselmeister. OH, by the way, I was perfectly content with playing my old saxophone until someone (probably Mom or Dad) coerced me into converting from saxophone to oboe. What a fiasco. When's the last time you saw someone playing an oboe in a rock band?
Chuck Meier #249 开云体育 I'm really behind in this conversation, but here is a memory from the band program.? The band went to contest and there was a rather difficult section for the clarinets that we hadn't learned very well.? When we got to that part, we didn't play it any better than we had learned it; apparently Nancy or Barbara saw the judges when we played that part and said that one of them practically knocked her glasses off looking at the music when we played it.? I think we ended up with a second or third ranking; it was definitely not "Superior". ? My clarinet was school-owned; so I had to return it when we graduated.? I thought about getting one a couple of years ago, but decided that something different might be more interesting, and decided on a cello.? My wife related this to her sister when she was here for Thanksgiving and her sister gave me a new student-level for Christmas that year!? That was five years ago, and I have been attempting to learn to play it since then; I have taken lessons.? It's the hardest thing I've ever done, musically.? It's probably harder than learning to play golf, although I think I have a better chance of getting good at playing the cello than I do of getting good playing golf. ? All of this reminiscing is fun, but my detailed memory of many of these things is fuzzy, at best.? I enjoy reading all of the responses. ? Chuck

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