Musical Injuries

Apparently it's possible to get your tongue stuck in a piccolo mouth piece - something to do with the air creating a vacumn or something (i'm not sure ). I bet thats painful if it's possible!

I'm not too sure if marching practice would count as a musical injury if you're marching with an old school marching xylophone...

I have a nasty habit of peeling the skin on my lips. I also play the tuba.

Needless to say, a world of bloody hurt.

Ouch. That's gotta hurt pretty bad. Playing crash cymbals and dropping it just right so the edge lands directly on your toe hurts really bad depending on the height and the size of it...

My brain has imploded from the pressure of playing oboe for too long....

Oboe does hurt your head after so long of playing it. I've had that problem.

As a mallet percussionist now, our set up is battery on our right, and metronome on our left. Well, where I'm located is only about 5 feet away from the metronome. I literally have no hearing from listening to that and the battery making sure they're heard. Can my eardrums run away before I cause them too much damage? *snickers* Maybe I've already done enough...*snickers again*

Earplugs. Our band director wears earplugs. So does the entire band. He turns the Dr.Beat metronome up as high as possible, attached to a Long Ranger speaker... INSIDE the friggin' band room. And turns it higher... and higher... and higher when the drumline starts falling behind or something. I don't see the point. He turns it up louder, half the girls stop playing and hold their ears, half the guys hold their ears with one hand and play with the other, and those lucky enough to have earplugs push them in further.

I'll have you know our band director is hard of hearing. If I ever become a band director in my future, I won't use a metronone inside. I'll use my freakin' hands. At least I'll get exercise, unlike my B.D. now.

Has he been told that he may be literally hurting his students? I don't know how that band is organized, but if it's under the supervision of a school, this is certainly something that the school may want to take action against, and in some cases may even be legally required to take action against... Although if he's hard of hearing, he may not even be aware of the problem.