{"id":39957,"date":"2013-12-06T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T18:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=39957"},"modified":"2024-06-11T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:28:03","slug":"uk-sax-players-suffers-hypothermia-trying-save-horn-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2013\/uk-sax-players-suffers-hypothermia-trying-save-horn-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Sax Player Saved From The Llangollen Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve all heard about the heroic actions of people who dive into the frigid waters of a lake or river to save people or animals who are at risk of drowning. Sometimes those things turn out well and everyone survives. Other times, well, things don’t turn out quite as planned, and the rescuer and\/or the victims don’t make it out. My question for you is this: Do you love your saxophone enough that you would dive into the water to try and save it?<\/p>\n

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Cheesy photo aside \ud83d\ude09   , most of us would agree that we all love our horns. But, do you really love your horn that much that you would dive into the water and try to retrieve it?<\/p>\n

This morning I happened across an interesting story on the BBC’s website. The story involves a saxophone player in the UK. At first glance it would appear that he did indeed love his horn enough to try and retrieve it from the waters of a canal.<\/p>\n

According to this story, published December 2, 2013:<\/p>\n

Musician falls in Llangollen Canal trying to rescue saxophone<\/span><\/p>\n

A musician suffered hypothermia and had to be rescued from a canal after he fell in while trying to retrieve his saxophone in Denbighshire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rescuers say the man, in his 50s, was lucky to be alive as he was thought to have been in the water at Llangollen for some time.<\/p>\n

The alarm was raised on Sunday by an early morning dog walker who called the emergency services to Llangollen Canal.<\/p>\n

His saxophone was handed in to police after being found floating in its case.<\/p>\n

The man was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital for treatment. No further details are known.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC News, December 2, 2013<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My friends from the UK will likely not be surprised to learn I had no idea where the Llangollen Canal is. Apparently it crosses the border between England and Wales.<\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The waterway links Llangollen in Denbighshire, north Wales, with Hurleston in south Cheshire, via the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire. In 2009 an eleven-mile section of the canal from Gledrid Bridge near Rhoswiel through to the Horseshoe Falls, which includes Chirk Aqueduct and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After figuring out where the Llangollen Canal was, my next stop was Flickr. I was stunned by the hundreds, if not thousands of photos of the canal and surrounding area that people had uploaded to the social media site.<\/p>\n

White Bridge, No 59, Llangollen Canal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photography by: Andrew Batram  <\/a> Source: Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n

While looking at the picturesque beauty of the landscapes, I started to wonder: How could someone accidentally drop their saxophone in their Llangollen Canal? Was the player drunk? Was he the victim of an assault, and the perpetrators afterwards threw his saxophone into the canal? Did he try to commit suicide, and take his sax with him? Did he trip, and his saxophone flew out of his hand and into the canal? None of the above? A combination of events perhaps?<\/p>\n

We’ll likely never know what happened on that early December 1 morning, and exactly how that saxophone ended up in the Llangollen Canal. One thing is for certain though, it certainly has me pondering what extent I would go to if my saxophone was in peril.<\/p>\n

How about you? Would you jump in the water, or otherwise risk your life to save your sax? What if it’s your favourite one? How about your only one? What about if it’s the sax you spent years saving for?<\/p>\n

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