Well, I was packing for my big move, and had the thought to clean my french horn before I locked it up and refit the strap on the case. I was a professional player for two years, and I own a custom-made Yamaha, whose price would cause grown men to lose bowel control. Well, I had it in my closet, in its custom case, and Iwent to find it, but it wasn't there! I looked all over (the case is huge, not too many places to put it) and it was nowhere to be found! So, I casually ask if it's been moved to remove the large mounted deer head from my room.

My dad replied "I let *********'s kid borrow it. I didn't think you minded."

Well, I had a modicum of composure left, so I asked about why he did, and why it wasn't back.

"I figured that you wouldn't mind letting him have it."

I very calmly told my little niece to go lock herself in my little brother's room and plug her ears.

Zombies now walk the earth in Jasper, AL from the sheer amount of four letter words used in six languages to describe my situation. What made it worse is that he did it without my grandmother's knowledge. In effect, my dad stole my one-of-a-kind horn and gave it to a high school freshman just starting on french horn.

I was smart enough to corner him in front of his mother, who made sure that he knew that he would be returning it to me before I left, and I'm taking it so there will be no more close calls.

Six more days, can't be done fast enough.

Whoa, what a great story...ahaha, if I were you I'll beat the f00k outta the smart a$$ punk... why is that kid walking with his mom anyways???

anyways... great story....

do you live in alberta??? and who did you swear to? your dad?... that's kinda harsh....**heart attack**

The kid is innocent.

My father would happen to be the smartass punk that you refer to. It's becoming an apt description.

and I swore to no one, AL is Alabama, and the zombies are chasing my neighbors.

My father gave away my Star Wars toy collection without my knowledge or consent.

I made him get it back.

Quote: Originally Posted by putwig My father gave away my Star Wars toy collection without my knowledge or consent. I made him get it back.

The old stuff, like what you had from being a kid?

I don't blame you.

Put, you just gained even more cool points, you got Star Wars toys...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kayin Storm The old stuff, like what you had from being a kid?

Every birthday and christmas from age 6-12.

56 action figures with all weapons
Millenium Falcon
TIE Fighter
Sand Crawler Desert Base
Tractor Beam base
AT-AT snow walker
Snow Speeder
Ice base from Empire with the imperial scout robot
Two Tauntauns
Slave-1
Jabba
2 speeder bikes

That is just off the top of my head.

I hate it when my parents loan out my dvds without my consent, then i get them back all scratch and covered with gunk and fingerprints.

Now that is just blatantly stupid. Didn't he know you paid that much money for the instrument? Especially custom made, instruments are very expensive! Would you mind posting the price? I'm guessing $5k but I'd just like to know for some reason.

Just wondering, did you ever see the Canadian Brass live? The french horn player they have is awesome. I saw them once, and they played around here recently(If I would have known about it I probably would have went).

Quote: Originally Posted by Kage Now that is just blatantly stupid. Didn't he know you paid that much money for the instrument? Especially custom made, instruments are very expensive! Would you mind posting the price? I'm guessing $5k but I'd just like to know for some reason. Just wondering, did you ever see the Canadian Brass live? The french horn player they have is awesome. I saw them once, and they played around here recently(If I would have known about it I probably would have went).

Not live, but I've corresponded with him once.

Kage, try valued at 10,200. Custom 667v, three custom mouthpieces, pitch change slides, bell reshape, leadpipe change, and custom case. Got a lot for free due to a Yamaha flub-bought the 667, they destroyed it. Sent a 667v, said keep it. They r0x0r.

Man, thats a hell of a lot of money. I had no idea they were that expensive!


Luckly I'll never own something so expensive.

I, myself, used to collect Star Wars toys, but I bet they're not as old as Putwig's. I used to keep all the stuff in a corner of my room, now replaced with KISS things and such.
But I still do have the Star Wars toys, in boxes somewhere in the basement.

Kayin, as a fellow musician (trumpet) i know how much those things cost. That sounds like a really, really nice horn. Hopefully you got it back without it getting messed up. fingerprints are one thing, but dents/scratches... ugh.

I have a Holton / Maynard Ferguson #3 and a Getzen 300, both which i like and cost much less than your horn. hehe.

being a fellow musician I can relate...although I do not have my own personal tuba, yet, because there prices range from several thousand to in the teens...When you say you were a profesional horn player did you play with an orchestra or just free-lance?

I know how you feel.. In highschool and first few years I had a custom Bach Stradivarious trumpet that Was given to me as a gift..It was real silver with 18K gold accents, custom mouthpieces and real pearl valvue covers..Unfortunatly I don't have it now because it was donated to a church..

Slick--Being a fellow tuba player, I can relate I've been playing on school owned tuba's from the beginning. I started with a metal sousaphone with a built in stand and chair that you sat in when I went to a prochial school. Then I moved on to a public elementary school and didn't play at all there because the band program was not too great. I picked up playing again in middle school where I got to play a real tuba for the first time which was a small three valve, then the next year I ended up playing a bigger and better one...needless to say, I ended up buying a little tripod to set the tuba on because I was too short to play it off of the chair. Now I moved on to HS and have been playing a nice rotary 4 valve tuba that was made in the Czech Republic that I share with some other kid that doesn't take good care of it. I would really like my own, but I can wait until I'm out of HS and have the money to set aside for it.

Well bio at least it went to a good cause who will actually profit from it; not some grubby kids who will not appreciate its value.

Bio, my friend has a bach strad trumpet with the 18k gold accents and pearl keys. It's so shiney!

My bass clarinet is a cheapo one, but still 2k. It's like, people don't realize how expensive those things are.

Kayin, glad to hear you're getting it back. If that were me, I probably would've reacted much the same way.

I'd hate to be walking the streets of AL right now

Both of my brother's trumpets were lost (rather, pretty well hurt) when my folks' house burned in October. Neither one was really nice, but still several hundred dollars worth of instrument. Mom's old clarinet was toasted too, not sure of value, but she'd had it since she was in high school (and she's 60-ish now). I think my wife's old clarinet may have been at that house too.

Fortunately, my brother had taken all of his guitars and amps with him when he migrated up north. That would've been several thousands of dollars gone up in smoke.

PS, not that this really relates, but we've finished tallying up the value of stuff lost in mom's house. Grand total of about $170,000. To make things really swell, their fire insurance has a "stuff" max value of about $80,000. All y'all that own houses and have fire insurance, double check that your policy is actually going to cover the losses you think it'll cover. We're learning the hard way that dad's insurance isn't a swell as he thought it was...

finally, a fellow tuba player! Tuba has become my life...besides my computer lol...Im auditioning for kinhaven...dont know if youv ever heard of it. Its a summer music camp. I'm hoping that for a graduation present I will be able to get a C tuba.