Learning a noisy musical instruments

[icowden]

but putting them in a practical exam for a tuba player who is a bit shy (yeah, I know, seems unlikely)

If there is one thing that playing the trumpet taught me, it was confidence.
At school a second violinist once said to me "you played that wrong AGAIN". I replied "At least I KNOW when I play something wrong. No-one knows if you are playing at all..". One of the few zingers I've ever come up with quickly...

FYI it was one of those awful movements where the composer has decided they want a brass blast of 1 note in the middle of 400 odd bars of music, and if the conductor fails to wave at you at the right time it's very easy to miss it.

 

[briantrumpet]

If there is one thing that playing the trumpet taught me, it was confidence.
At school a second violinist once said to me "you played that wrong AGAIN". I replied "At least I KNOW when I play something wrong. No-one knows if you are playing at all..". One of the few zingers I've ever come up with quickly...

FYI it was one of those awful movements where the composer has decided they want a brass blast of 1 note in the middle of 400 odd bars of music, and if the conductor fails to wave at you at the right time it's very easy to miss it.

My only good zinger was when a very good violinist (and friend) came up to me after the rehearsal for Handel's Messiah, and told me I should be paid per note (as I only play for about 10 minutes total compared with her 2.5 hours). I told her that I was, but much more than she was.

Somehow we're still friends.

 

[Yellow Fang]

If there is one thing that playing the trumpet taught me, it was confidence.
At school a second violinist once said to me "you played that wrong AGAIN". I replied "At least I KNOW when I play something wrong. No-one knows if you are playing at all..". One of the few zingers I've ever come up with quickly...

FYI it was one of those awful movements where the composer has decided they want a brass blast of 1 note in the middle of 400 odd bars of music, and if the conductor fails to wave at you at the right time it's very easy to miss it.

If listeners cannot hear if a 2nd violinist makes a bum note, what about the viola? Maybe that's the safest instrument in the orchestra.

 

[icowden]

If listeners cannot hear if a 2nd violinist makes a bum note, what about the viola? Maybe that's the safest instrument in the orchestra.

Brings to mind.

"What's the difference between a violin and a viola?"


"A viola burns for longer..."