Reeds do go boom

This article submitted by Bryan Schaefer on 2/24/00.

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Reeds do go boom

The Tale:

I'm a member of Mehlville Senior High's concerst band and we went to the all-state convention at Tan-Tar-a and I'm a contra alto clarinet. Our guest conductor was none other than NTU's Mr. Fisher. During the piece that he was conducting, Shenandoah, my reed went boom. I felt it crake and it let out that horid squeak that all reeds put out in testomony that they refuse to respond correctly agin. I breathed in and right into my hangy ball, I was never a biology phreak, went a piece of reed. So there I was attempting to hack out the projectile and up comes, oh no, the 4 measures that mattwer the most in which i provide transition from the oboe solo into the next phrase. that was a real delimia. With no other choice I under-blow and play the measures and as soon as they were over I changed reeds.

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