#orchestral instruments

[modusty]

do u ever... just forget that the word "horn" doesn't just refer to musical instruments...

[scottish-badger]

So we have this thing in our school in our last year where we are given a bag of pasta and we have to pretend it's a baby so we know what it's like to always look after a baby. We'll be getting ours soon and we're allowed to dress them up. I've decided I want mine to be Harry Potter but I also want it to have a clarinet (because I play the clarinet). This got me thinking and at 12 o'clock last night I started writing this....I can't even.

"This is the story of Clarinet Potter. When Clarinet Potter was just a baby clarinet, the evil Lord Violin killed his parents and left him with a chip on his reed. Clarinet Potter went to go live with the three Dursley Pianos who were so terribly out of tune. One day, Clarinet Potter had a visit from Tuba Hagrid and he told Clarinet Potter that he was an orchestral instrument and he was to go to Mozart's school of orchestral talent. Clarinet Potter hopped into his case and off he went. When he reached the school, he met Cor Anglais McGonagall who told them all about Mozart's. There were 4 houses: Brass, Percussion, Woodwind and Strings. The sorting cap tried to put Clarinet Potter into Strings but he wanted to be Woodwind so badly and he was finally granted his wish. In Woodwind, he met Oboe Weasley and Flute Granger and they were the best of friends. However, Clarinet Potter also met Strings called Cello Malfoy and Double Bass Snape who he did not get on so well with. The school's headmaster, the old and wise Bassoon Dumbledore, taught Clarinet Potter how to fight against the Dark Lord Violin or He Who Must Not Be Played. Sadly, Double Bass Snape betrayed Bassoon Dumbledore and killed him to join Lord Violin. Clarinet Potter then joined forces with the Order of the Treble Clef which included Trumpet Black, Horn Lupin and Mad-Slide Trombone. Together they fought Lord Violin and Bass Clef Eaters like Viola Lestrange. Although many notes were lost, the Treble Clef's won and the Bass Clef's were defeated. Good music was restored all due to the wonderful Clarinet Potter."

Morale of the story....don't write at midnight.

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[thelithiumcat]

I don't understand why I never come across people who are as excitable about orchestral instruments as I am - even people who actually play them and are good at them. I get excited all the time about being able to pick out the different instruments, parts and layers in a piece of orchestral music and it really flows through me. I connect with it more than pretty much anything else. If I do find someone who's into it, they're not excitable about it as such; they'll know lots of obscure pieces and terminology and practice all the time. That makes me feel a bit too much like an outsider to really connect with them (see: my post the other day on groups). Why aren't there people who will just have fun with me by seeing what we can do with our instruments? Not necessarily following music: playing intuitively. Whenever I find people who get excited they don't take playing it seriously and lose the point. I want it to be a really meaningful experience (though that might just be relative to my limited social experience) and connect with them on it but it doesn't work. Maybe one day I'll find someone who can play music with me - other than my family and music teacher(s).

I guess sometimes I take my musical intuition for granted; I find it difficult to imagine just how much more difficult some people find certain things about playing instruments when I don't have problems on that scale at all. I will find it difficult, but it will be a very small problem compared to them. For example, I can often just tell how something should go and which chord should come next so my problem might be playing it to a high enough standard to satisfy myself. Their problem might be (though this is just a guess) how they're supposed to play the chord and where to start. They won't necessarily know what to play next. I digress.

[telekin]

Star Wars Cello Battle

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