sad death of insterments

[Dojigomiru]

i play a wood clarinet in my high school band...well one of the buttons started to stick so my band teacher sent it away, so i had the spare (also wood) and after a few weeks of using it there was a crack down the side. turns out the band room is SO dry that our poor wood interments are shrinking. Any sad stories of breaking interments...i tend to do it alot so  

[Darikiel]

You ought to ask your Director to buy some Humidifiers for the room so that doesn't happen as often.  

[moosiklady]

Humidity/dryness can wreak havoc on wood instruments! One of my guitar's neck warped too badly to fix! crying  

[Dojigomiru]

our school is sooo dry too...poor interments  

[Kaio-Leucitius]

I can't afford to, I have to constantly do maintainance on my shitty used guitars as it is. If I can ever afford a decent electric I might have a farewell show for my worn down jackson assuming it has no sentimental value. I probably wont though.

Put it to you this way, if i ever became rich I would buy first acts and squires as "disposable guitars". haha pete went's signature bass made me crack the ******** up, I'd burn it.

no i wouldn't I'd sell it cuz i'm poor

AAH! DILEMA!  

[Spectrum_Rhapsody]

Eh,heh...I have broken my own before, but does breaking other people's instruments count as well? sweatdrop My flute has had a few broken springs here and there, nothing that Hanson's couldn't fix before, but then I had this loose screw, so it was replaced a couple times, then I was finally told that it would do no good because the screw was being stripped everytime because of teh part it's screwed into is whats stripping it. The tightness or looseness of the screw affects my overall tone (and whether or not certain notes will play at all), So I face the dilemma: is it possible to have that bar with some of the keys replaced entirely so it won't strip the next screw, or am I doomed to buy a new flute? (which I do NOT want to do....I'm too attatched to my current one)
This year we had a freshman in hs band who had a broken key at the end of her flute. I tore off a little piece of paper, rolled it into a ball and stuck it under the key to keep it propped up so the majority of her notes would come out right...but in the middle of a song it was coming up so she gave it to me and I was pushing it farther back under the key, when the wooden cork part of that key next to it (it's not a normal key over a hole, it's the lever on the endpiece of the flute) popped right off. I made a little scream and tried to pop it back on, but to no avail....I felt so bad, I broke someone else's flute (that was already going to get fixed because of that one key, but still...) So the freshman kept saying it was okay, and here I am going: "Sorry, sorry, sorry..." Buta s of now it's been fixed, so I feel better.  

[Arc En Licorne]

i have never broken an interment beyond repair but the keys on my piano are chipped and the strings on my guitar are always braking. but my sister has. my dad used to collect old guitars acoustic and electric and he gave one to me and one to my sister. well she has a very messy room and her guitar was on the floor, and she stepped on it and broke its neck!!!!! i was mortified coz not only was it our fathers old guitar but he died not to long after that to. i cant play mine yet coz i don't kno how but it still isn't broken so i still keep it as a collectible.  

[Old Fashion Cliche]

i take excellent care of all my instruments  

[Fenpex]

I play guitar, piano, and make music on the computer... I've never broken any instruments... Ever...  

[StudioGilliam]

Aww, that sucks about your instrument breaking.

I can't actually remember if I've ever broken one... But that probably means I haven't, thankfully!  

[pbninja123]

I did not break my BASSOON, but i got I recieved it broken. The whisper key was tied with some kind of floss (eww[but I found out the floss wasn't used yet]). It was totally out of tune, and also, the Bb (B flat key was broken). The bassoon could not go lower than a low F, which was pretty sad. But the good thing is that it fit into a case that looks like a trumpet case. (Pretty cool)! smile