QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 04:02 PM)

QUOTE (BabyBanana @ Feb 19 2005, 04:01 PM) You play the gituar? i never kenw that.. play in very light terms. i can play about 2 tunes and 3 chords LOL ....there are plenty of things you dont know about me!

lol.. Hmm..

i can't play it at all i only done book 1.. need to do book 2. i play so many things on my gituar instead of lerning my thoery back then whoops.

what book have you got? ive got fast track book 1

I don't know.. a book .. a book is a book to me. i don't know.. i don't really read it.. whoops

honestly...............................

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 04:09 PM)

honestly...............................

what.. its not really my fault.. shes gets me them.. i'll find it for you if it is THAT important to you .

no its ok!! you can go and play Corant instead

err.. whats corant?

I ain't herd of any corant.. err..

the pizza- you twit!!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 04:19 PM)

the pizza- you twit!!

Its not going to taste very nice.. i hate the corant flavoured pizza.

grr i hate corant i get it wrong then i get stressed then i'll end up killing the piano!!

poor piano, thats worse than dropping it

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 04:26 PM)

poor piano, thats worse than dropping it

well i can't help it.. its just dosen't do like i want it to.. i put HUGE circles areound where i go wrong and i still go wrong.. got anything that'll help me ??

My flute case decided not to work about 5 years ago. I was walking along and suddenly the clasp came un-done and my flute was in bits on the pavement! Luckily it wasnt too badly damaged and I'm still playing it today.

One of the screws on my violin case has fallen off somewhere, so I now carry it around in the hope that it wasn't too important in keeping my violin case together!

ug my flute case was awful (one of the tyical black boosey and hwaks ones with the HUGE clasp). Last year it decided to trap my flute inside it! I couldnt get it out for a couple of days - which doesnt seem that long, but I was trying to open it for those few days! I now have a nice new case with a zip, so cant go as badly wrong!

Lol
I can imagine the panic.

Hmm, if it was a violin, I would probably drop it on purpose.....

It's not THAT bad
perhaps it might make a nice noise if you dropped it though...

awww the violin is a lovely instrument! it's not the violin's fault that being a decent violinist is awfully hard work and people rarely get that far!

i feel sorry for my parents when they had to put up with me attemting to play it

That is true, I feel sorry for anyone who has shared a household with a beginner violinist, I think it must be the worst sounding instruments to start from.
Later though the music is beautiful... dream...

i got up to grade 4 but i was really awful at it!!hehe

one of my friends dropped her violin in her lesson and it split really badly + needed repairing. she was really embarrassed + upset cos its now got a 'scar' as she calls it!!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 06:43 PM)

i got up to grade 4 but i was really awful at it!!hehe

you cant have been that bad if you got up to grade 4

i failed grade 4 - that says it all

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 06:43 PM)

i got up to grade 4 but i was really awful at it!!hehe

Me too!

Where did all the perseverence go?

QUOTE (uberzoldat @ Feb 18 2005, 10:52 PM)

has anyone ever dropped their piano?

i dont really tend to carry pianos LOL

QUOTE (Keys @ Feb 19 2005, 07:17 PM)

Where did all the perseverence go?

Perseverance? You mean the fact that me and Nat both stopped playing violin?

if thats what u mean, then it was because i failed grade 4 and was then given grade 5 stuff to do and at the time i liked clarinet better and had just started it alongside piano

Yes, it seems a shame that you stopped playing although you probably took up other instruments.
Actually, maybe it made sense to stop and play something that sounded good.

not that my clarinet playing was any bettr, i was just being made to do things i didnt want with violin and oi wasnt with clarinet. clarine twas much more intersting coz id just started it

I have noticed that this topic started off about literally dropping instruments, then to dropping instruments as in giving up.
Just in case anyone wanted to know...

Well for me it was the fact I had so much to do, my 'to-do' pile of work was increasing so much, and I was expected to progress on flute, piano, theory, college work, and still take an active part with the running of a brownie unit, a guide unit and still take part in ranger activities.
I dont think so somehow.

there we go, now anyone else care to tell us why they gave up violin?!

QUOTE (Keys @ Feb 19 2005, 07:25 PM)

I have noticed that this topic started off about literally dropping instruments, then to dropping instruments as in giving up. Just in case anyone wanted to know...

Sorry...

well i started the topic! and i dont mind what is talked about in it!

QUOTE (Keys @ Feb 19 2005, 06:41 PM)

That is true, I feel sorry for anyone who has shared a household with a beginner violinist, I think it must be the worst sounding instruments to start from. Later though the music is beautiful... dream...

yes - you have to really really want to play, it's so difficult to really sound nice when you start - especially if you're 7! lol... but perseverance does pay off, if you are good it sounds amazing! (wish I could class myself in that category...)

Umm dropping instruments...

Couple years back, the footjoint on my flute kept falling off. (i think it fell off in an exam!!)

Well, last year my flute case broke and my flute went flying accross teh main corridor at the high school. About 50 people stood on it. The head joint oval by the end... (thankfully it was fixed)

When I first got my bassoon, my mum dropped it and it now has a couple of dents and scratches. My was then banned from touching the bassoon.

TODAY, my Dad was holding my bassoon and fell down the kirb and dropped the bassoon (in the case). Now, both my parents are banned from touching the bassoon.

QUOTE (fluteandbassoon @ Feb 20 2005, 04:09 AM)

Now, both my parents are banned from touching the bassoon.

I dropped my flute on the solid floor last yr...and it changed shape and cannot fit itself again,luckly i got it fitted my techicans...

I remember a time when this boy in my orchestra kept tipping his chair backwards until he AND his violin fell! The violin was broken and it was the day before an important concert so he had to buy a new violin straight away. Don't think his parents or our conductor were best pleased though...

Flutes seem to be particularly fragile, and this coming lossed footjoint thing seems to be a recurring problem, I never did manage to get it fixed on my old flute.

And unfortunetly, the catches on that same flutes case were broken on my first day of having it, which meant that when the elastic band broke, it repeatedly fell out on concreate etc.

One day, I will sped a lot of money getting that poor instrument completely restored. The guy that keep my instruments serviced for me said he would like to spend several weeks on it, I think he loved it even more than I did!

i don't have much trouble with dropping my flute becuase my case is sooooooooo awkard to get into most the time i can't even get it out !!!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Feb 19 2005, 07:26 PM)

there we go, now anyone else care to tell us why they gave up violin?!

AAAAAAARRGGHHHHHH!!!!!

I have nearly given up the violin soooooooo many times (i dont think i mentioned that i played that?!)

It is SO hard to make it sound nice- the high notes sound like a strangled cat and i hate the E string. UGH!!! I think i will have a heart attack if i ever actually manage to make the high notes sound nice.....

And I'm starting grade 6 music soon- help!!!

i dropped my bow on the floor when i was younger and it snapped!

I'm always dropping rosin! it makes a big mess

I'm always dropping my clarinet, I accidentily (sp?) stood on my mouth-piece cover a few weeks ago, its all bent out of shape now!

QUOTE (violinandpianogurl @ Feb 21 2005, 04:49 PM)

I'm always dropping rosin! it makes a big mess

Oh I've done that. (several times actually).

I didn't realise until I dropped it that it would shatter...

I have a friend who drops her tuba on a fairly regular basis, but its a schools music service one! I dont know what they are going to say when it goes back! My sax fell off its stand once, but luckily it wasnt harmed.

QUOTE (Katet @ Feb 21 2005, 07:01 PM)

I have a friend who drops her tuba on a fairly regular basis, but its a schools music service one! I dont know what they are going to say when it goes back! My sax fell off its stand once, but luckily it wasnt harmed.

ive already said that! lol
she has a new one now though, it's all silver and shiny!

I'm glad to say I've never dropped my violin (it's 300 years old and has been in the family almost that long, so it would be a disaster!) but I have dropped my bow once or twice, and am always dropping rosin which DOES make a mess!