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Subject: Re: [MK8]Packing barred instruments

From: M Stanley

Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 22:20:05 -0400

I've always been nervous about the adults who come into my room during
summer. Even they will plonk the bars if available.
So I'm more comfortable removing the bars and putting them in a separate
place. I also cover all my drums or store them when appropriate upside down
and push the npp cart up against the wall with the openings facing the
wall. Attractive nuisance and all that.

Back to bars: (Orff bars, not tiki bars)

For a couple of summers, I put all the bars in a single bucket. Uh.... no.
Heavy and impossible to sort out later.
Then I tried putting all the same bars in the same container. Uh..... no.
Too much running around to match bars and instruments.
Then I stuck them all in the instruments and didn't like that cuz I couldn't
vacuum the instrument easily and they rattled around inside and I wondered
what it was doing to the joinery of the boxes.
So it's more trouble to pack the bars the way I (get some kids to) do, but
it really protects the bars and it's a lot easier to figure out what bars
are missing or misplaced for which instrument and it's waaay easier to put
the bars back on in the fall. I posted how I do the bars in an earlier post
today, btw.

Just one person's thoughts.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Denise in SC wrote:

> All this packing is prompting me to ask, If you have barred
> instruments do you pack them up every year? 2 years ago I left a
> month early to go to the Philippines to meet my mother so she could
> get radiation. I packed every single bar and put them in my locked
> closet. I don't remember what I did last year. This year I moved my
> personal barred instruments to another school where they would
> appreciate them. I have a key to the closet and put them in there
> after class every time I teach there. I was planning on putting them
> in the closet and put my fleece remnants on top of them to cover them.
> Should I be packing up all the bars instead?
>
> I don't know where I'll be teaching next year but more than likely
> I'll still be at the school where my instruments are located.
>
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