gaaaah
So I just put my bass clarinet together to check and make sure everything was fine and dandy prior to heading out the door to concert band. Now, before I go any further, let me mention two things.
1) I haven't played my bass clarinet since April 20, 2005, the date of the last concert band performance.
2) In April/May, one of the seniors back at my high school borrowed my bass clarinet for their final concert because the school bass clarinet sucks.
Ok. So I pick up the neck of my bass and think: "Wow, I really need to polish this thing." Then try to fit it in, and... it gets stuck. "Huh, that's odd." I think. So I'm looking at it and just thinking: "This REALLY doesn't look like the neck to my bass clarinet." But I just assume I'm going crazy and put the whole thing together and try to play it. It feels COMPLETELY wrong. Then I realize that this neck positions the mouthpiece so that it goes directly into your mouth. My neck curved up so that the mouthpiece came in at an angle. WTF?
As I called my mom to complain, thinking that maybe somehow it got switched during concert band last year, I remembered Leeanne, the senior who borrowed my bass clarinet, telling me that she was switching the necks because she couldn't play with the curved neck. Obviously she forgot to switch the necks back prior to graduation/me retrieving my bass from the high school. Thankfully the school got a new bass clarinet so my neck hasn't been used all year (in theory), but still. I e-mailed Sulzman (who will probably yell at me for not taking my bass out of it's case since last May) and my mom's going to pick up/ship me the correct neck.
GAAAAH. lol. Thankfully I can still play the instrument for tonight. I've had my bass for eight years now and it just feels weird this way. Off I go.
1) I haven't played my bass clarinet since April 20, 2005, the date of the last concert band performance.
2) In April/May, one of the seniors back at my high school borrowed my bass clarinet for their final concert because the school bass clarinet sucks.
Ok. So I pick up the neck of my bass and think: "Wow, I really need to polish this thing." Then try to fit it in, and... it gets stuck. "Huh, that's odd." I think. So I'm looking at it and just thinking: "This REALLY doesn't look like the neck to my bass clarinet." But I just assume I'm going crazy and put the whole thing together and try to play it. It feels COMPLETELY wrong. Then I realize that this neck positions the mouthpiece so that it goes directly into your mouth. My neck curved up so that the mouthpiece came in at an angle. WTF?
As I called my mom to complain, thinking that maybe somehow it got switched during concert band last year, I remembered Leeanne, the senior who borrowed my bass clarinet, telling me that she was switching the necks because she couldn't play with the curved neck. Obviously she forgot to switch the necks back prior to graduation/me retrieving my bass from the high school. Thankfully the school got a new bass clarinet so my neck hasn't been used all year (in theory), but still. I e-mailed Sulzman (who will probably yell at me for not taking my bass out of it's case since last May) and my mom's going to pick up/ship me the correct neck.
GAAAAH. lol. Thankfully I can still play the instrument for tonight. I've had my bass for eight years now and it just feels weird this way. Off I go.