Musical Injuries

Originally Posted by spherenine

I have pricked myself in the finger many a time with the end of a guitar string.

Bloody.

I did something kind of like that with a pair of brushes once. I went to open them, and my finger was resting on top of where the bristles come out. Somehow, I managed to get a few through my finger! There was blood :x

Metal!

That's what you get for playing drums.

A bassoonist told me that he got some serious headache after playing for a long rehearsal. His doctor told him to scan his brain in the hospital. He did it, and it was found that the nerve connecting his left and right brain was broken. He also told me that his fellow bassoonist from his conservatory developed weird psychological behavior. Any explanation for this???

Originally Posted by fauzie

A bassoonist told me that he got some serious headache after playing for a long rehearsal. His doctor told him to scan his brain in the hospital. He did it, and it was found that the nerve connecting his left and right brain was broken. He also told me that his fellow bassoonist from his conservatory developed weird psychological behavior. Any explanation for this???

Side effects of playing bassoon include brain damage

No actually, that's really crazy--I have no idea. It was the corpus callosum that was split, right? I don't think playing bassoon can cause that...

Yeah, the corpus callosum tends to be bigger in musicians. I mean, it would make sense if he were a drummer. . .

Actually, there's a known risk of a certain type of aneurysm/brain injury for oboists...

Well, that's why little children are usually discouraged from learning instruments such as the oboe or the bassoon, as double-reed instruments require quite a bit of air pressure that may be too much for a young brain.

Originally Posted by flint-wwrr

Actually, there's a known risk of a certain type of aneurysm/brain injury for oboists...

link me!

The principle is that the high air pressure required for some wind instruments can cause elevated pressure in various parts of your head. The brain is often mentioned--though the most credible accounts I've heard talk specifically about the eye. I'm sure you could google up something or other that mentions this. However, I haven't found any studies that establish any real correlation, so for the moment I find it a bit dubious, and I certainly wouldn't call it "a known risk" off-hand. If I'm wrong I'd love to see some references.

A guitar string snapped on me - cut the back of my hand open and flicked blood across the room. That was fun.