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27 April 2018, 14:11 | Updated: 18 September 2023, 10:22
Spent the last ten minutes counting 92 bars of rests, then come in fortissimo a bar early and want to die of humiliation? Same.
1. When finding roommates who will tolerate the volume of your playing is a serious problem
Can someone make a silent brass mute but for sax so I can still practice when the rest of my family is asleep, pls and thank you
— Ashton Soefje 🌻 (@ashton_soefje) January 11, 2017
2. When any brass player > every other normal, attractive person
honestly dont even talk to me if u dont play the trombone
— gary from teen mom (@garyfromteenmom) April 24, 2018
3. When owning an instrument like yours turns you into an actual scientist
4. When sometimes, your performance directions are only ever angry and confusing
5. When your pet is completely petrified of your instrument
One of our German Shepherds does NOT like the trombone. 😂😂 #thingscalliebarksat pic.twitter.com/9UIu9fRESo
— Jenna Hatfield (@JennaHatfield) April 24, 2018
6. When your instrument is so impractically big, it becomes a piece of furniture
7. When there’s literally no sensible way of cleaning the darn thing
8. When polishing this bad boy is the sexiest thing you’ll ever do
9. When band > everything important in your life
10. When being better than the woodwind section is your main life goal
11. When your sheet music gets a bit too real with you
12. Also, when it clearly has a vendetta against you
13. When playing at a normal, human volume is seemingly impossible
14. When your bathroom cabinet starts to look like this
15. When you have to spend half your rehearsal time silently counting, while the violins get all the fun stuff
I refuse to count this. #orchestraproblems #aintnobodygottimeforthat pic.twitter.com/ndlar7Gc8F
— Orchestra Problems (@Orchestra_Probs) April 23, 2013
16. But you know, deep down, your instrument is just the greatest
Trumpet is God’s instrument
— JACK (@jack_grissom) April 26, 2018