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jhatpro
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How much music do you have to have in your basement to qualify for professional help? My wife wants to know.
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jiarby
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Saving stuff is one thing, but you do not have to be messy and disorganized about it like you see on the TV show. You can have neat bins and know where things are.
When you start saving trash (old food containers, pizza boxes) then you are a hoarder in the psychological sense.
When you start eating take-out because you cannot use your sink or your stove then you need to call for help. |
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jhatpro
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Is a bad sign when someone from Hickey's calls and asks if I have a Charlier I could spare?
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jiarby
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| I'll take a Charlier if you have extras! |
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jhatpro
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Sorry, I need both of mine because I wear bifocals.
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ConnArtist
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I give up. What's a Charlier? (I even did some googling before asking)
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jhatpro
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It's a book of 36 very demanding studies for brass instruments by Theo Charlier called "Transcendental Etudes." It's published in France and is pretty pricey ($50-$60 a copy, plus shipping.) It's available from Hickey's Music, the online retailer and, I assume, from other sources as well.
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trumpet_bob_silver
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In your basement? It's not going to get a little musty? Depending on your basement.
I'd say when it starts to negatively effect your life too much.
I tend to collect books and things. I probably still have too much stuff... but it's useful and I might still use it someday. 
When it's a pain to move the stuff.... When you don't like the results when you realize what the stuff costs you in terms of space, like paying for moving it now and paying for storing it now vs. if you had trashed it and bought a new copy later when you actually needed it.
I still feel bad about the music I recycled but... I tried to get rid of it but I set my own deadline on tossing the stuff. I'm not unhappy about having more space.
When you start having to adjust your life to having "stuff." |
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jhatpro
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Actually, my collection hasn't grown to hoarder proportions yet and it's pretty well organized. For the most part it's stacked by categories on several baker's racks. As for the humidity, I have a dehumidifier.
Still, it would be interesting to know how many method books, etude books, fake books, ensemble collections, orchestral excerpts, brass band parts, jazz charts and so on most THers have.
I keep telling myself I should make a list or a card file or something but, truth be told, I'd rather just play the notes, not inventory them.
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swthiel
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Hoarding:Buried Alive |
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| jhatpro wrote: | | How much music do you have to have in your basement to qualify for professional help? My wife wants to know. |
Isn't the question we're all pondering actually "How many trumpets do you have to have in your basement to qualify for professional help?"
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jhatpro
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I was up to 72. But after the intervention I'm down to a dozen.
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| jhatpro wrote: | | It's a book of 36 very demanding studies for brass instruments by Theo Charlier called "Transcendental Etudes." It's published in France and is pretty pricey ($50-$60 a copy, plus shipping.) It's available from Hickey's Music, the online retailer and, I assume, from other sources as well. |
Off topic, but I used those Charlier etudes in college......for me, VERY demanding, as was my teacher at that time. And it was pricey even back in 1974, around 30.00, which back then was a fortune. I remember mentioning the price being high to my teacher, his response was along the lines of "And?"
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:53 am Post subject: Re: Hoarding:Buried Alive |
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| jhatpro wrote: | | How much music do you have to have in your basement to qualify for professional help? My wife wants to know. |
I have zero, the reason being that I have no basement. Now lets not speak of the 4 long banker's boxes that I've stored in an outside shed or what I've put away in a flat file here in my office. Mostly, what I currently play from is racked or stacked on a 6 shelf x 48" wide open shelving unit just inside the door to my office. In it's case on top of this shelving unit is my trombone which I'm seldom playing now, in lieu thereof preferring my euphonium as resides on the closet shelf. There are two trumpets and my accessory case in the knee hole of my credenza and two cornets in the knee hole of my desk. Still, a sign on the outside of my office door reads, "NO ADMITTANCE, Authorized Personnel Only". I had nothing to do with acquiring that sign ... my wife did. Such means she will not not come in to dust or clean up my "mess". |
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