Band Geeks Unite

A Place where all those who play a classical band isntrument can bond over or strangeness.

[gamedevgirlie]

When you haven’t practiced for your lesson

[dyingpoetkid]

Reed players be like

[crumplemonkey]

You've heard of Panic! at the disco now get ready for

Frustration! in the practice room.

[crazymusicianpoop]

When you thought you totally obliterated your reed but your teacher makes it work

[terminatedweasel]

Beware the oboes...

Some of the best times in orchestra are when the conductor gets distracted and starts telling ridiculous stories… Here’s one of them as a response to one of the oboists in youth orchestra spending all her time scraping her reeds during a tacet movement of Scheherazade:

There was an oboist in a professional orchestra who had a habit of scraping his reeds up until one bar before he had to play during rehearsal, only just managing to get his instrument up in time to play. The guest conductor was getting extremely annoyed and made a point of shouting at the oboist to stop.

Then in the dress rehearsal, once again the oboist was scraping reeds during his rests. The time for his solo was coming up soon… The conductor looks up to try and cue the oboist and he’s still scraping his reeds. And then at the very final second, the oboist slams the knife he was using to scrape his reed into his leg and starts playing. 

The conductor faints.

He didn’t know that the oboist had a wooden leg!

[toastytostado]

[apparentlycarrot-deactivated201]

You know, for all the scientific studies on how music decreases stress and anxiety, you think that music students would be the most relaxed group of people, but.

[ibrokeadesktoday]

as an equivalent exchange for the de-stressing of others, all music students take on the stress of everyone who listens to music to de-stress.

[bananaoboe]

When your instrument is in the repair shop...

[classicallytrainedidiot]

when you get the crappy stand and it falls for the 162862927th time during your practice

[tchaikovskify-deactivated201712]

me : i love music :)

person : why r u crying?

me : * sobs * i. just. love. music.

me : * doesn’t practice *

[bananaoboe]

When the soloist misses an entrance

[theclarinetcorner]

A little something to take off the edge

[theclarinetcorner]

lol. I didn’t expect this to get this many notes

[jazzymcnibble]

Music puns, you gotta love em.

[orchestrahumor]

[soyouwanttoplaytheflute]

RESIST THE DARK SIDE! 

[dotted-half-note]

when you want to fun music but you’re too busy with school music

[bananaoboe]

My life

[pianononsense]

Them: “So what kind of music do you listen to?” Me: “Oh, everything, really: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, Minimalist…” Them: “Rap?” Me: “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, yeah, that one too.”