1: How long have you been playing?
Three years in two weeks.
2: Are you in your school/college orchestra?
Yes. School
3: Are you in an orchestra out of school/college?
No. But I might when I grow up.
4: Are you in a professional orchestra?
Didn't I just say that I was still in school?
5: Or do you think your orchestra is good enough to be professional?
Not a chance. Seeing as we're still in school
6: If you think you guys are, are you totally fooling yourself?
No, I'm not fooling myself.
7: Is your Director a good director?
No, he's too lazy.
8: Or is she/he really stinky?
Stinky as in he smells, or stinky as in just bad?
9: Do you know more about your instrument than your director does?
My Instrument? Yes. Playing Jazzy? No.
10: Cause he also teaches band and they just forced him to do orchestra too?
Yes. But no too...
11: What chair are you?
We don't have "Chairs" Yet.
12: Are you happy with that chair?
Very.
13: Should you totally be first or second chair, but you’re not?
Like I've said before, We don't have chairs yet.
14: Is the first chair guy really super amazing?
... I'm done answering your questions.
15: Like, you could never be that good?(even though you will be someday!)
...
16: Have you ever broken your string instrument?
Yes.
17: How much did it cost to be repaired?
Well, I didn't fix it, but Jazzy needed at least 80$ worth of repairs..
18: Have you ever dropped your instrument?
No! I love Jazzy much too much!
19: Have you ever stepped on it?
Never!
20: Sat on it?
Are You kidding me!
21: Let some idiot borrow it and then they broke it? (MADISON!!)
Noooo!
22: Did it break in the middle of a performance?
No. It was during the summer.
23: Was it ever damaged by temperature related stuff? (Busted/seriously out of tune/etc)
YES! My A string broke because it was too cold and dry, and then when someone tried to tune it [Well, tried to fix it by tuning it] they broke the D string!
24: You left it too close to the radiator didn’t you?
No, actually, I left it too far away.
25: How many times have you needed to replace your rosin?
Once. In three years, only once.
26: Have you ever busted/lost your rosin?
I lost it once, because I left it in the bathroom, but someone moved it.
Don't ask why it was in the bathroom...
27: Do you have a shoulder rest?
No.
28: A battery powered tuner with the little digital dial?
No.
29: A colored music stand?
No, But I may get one....
30: Tapes for finger placement?
Yes, but I don't really need them.
31: Did you ever use tapes?
I was forced to.
32: Have you ever played at a performance without a rockstop?
With out a what?
33: Have you ever been at a performance without essential equipment, or music?
No...
34: Have you ever used your bow as a weapon?
Yes, actually. Believe it or not, I hit her in the head and she screamed.
35: Your instrument as a weapon??
NO! JAZZY?!
36: Is your bow hold screwed up?
No...
37: Do you have trouble with it?
Yes, they say I hold it wrong.
38: Is your other hand position wrong?
Yes....
39: What’s your biggest problem with your playing?
I tend to play too sharp if I have to use my pinky or if I play another position.
40: Is shifting into positions hard for you?
Only if I have to switch back.
41: Does it get out of pitch and sound like a sick armadillo?
Sound like what?? I've never heard that...
42: Are your fingernails clipped?
No, not really, I should do that though.
43: Go clip them now!
Later...
44: Are you good at vibrato?
Not really.
45: How long had you been playing when you learned it? Or, do you want to learn it?
What?
46: Have you ever eaten something sticky and then tried to play?
No, that sounds fun though.
47: Didn’t work very well did it?
Dunno.
48: Are your best friends in the orchestra?
Maybe, not sure, I still need her schedual to check.
49: Are you all at the same skill level? ?
Heck no! I'm way better then most in my level, but others are better then me.
50: Have you ever been to any contests? (Group or solo)
Yes, three were graded in class.
51: What were they?
Just class ones.
52: And how did it go?
We never won, but that's because we didn't care enough to win.
53: What’s the best song you’ve ever played?
It was one of Mozarts songs, but I never could find the name.
54: What’s the worst?
"Dragon Slayer"
55: What about the longest song you’ve ever played?
I'm not sure, really.
56: The hardest?
The Mozart one I said earlier.
57: Favorite classical composer?
Mozart, definantly.
58: If you don’t know any than you shouldn’t be playing! (Unless it’s your first year or something)
Well, duh.
59: Do you make money off of your hobby?
I want to, but Mom screams at me every time I try.
60: Have you seen a professional concert? Like Andre Rieu or Joshua Bell?
No, But I've been to colledge onse!
61: Ever win any awards for playing?
No.
62: Do you take private lessons?
I will, soon-ish.
63: Is he/ she really strict?
...
64: About how many times do you practice a week?
As often as I can.
65: For how long at a time?
Depends on my life.
66: Do you have fun with it or is it more of a chore?
Soo fun!
67: Do you use your snake (dampit) like you should?
My what???
68: Do you even need one?
I don't I guess because I don't know what it is..
69: Have you ever lost your instrument?
Jazzy?
Never.
Ever.
Ver.
Er.
R.
70: Did you get it back? Or what would you do if you’ve never lost it before?
I would cry.
71: Have you named your string instrument?
Duh, I've been calling him Jazzy, havn't I?
72: What’s its name?
...
73: Do you play any other instruments?
Yes, harmonica, and piano, and recorder.
74: Do you play them better or like them more than your string instrument?
NO!
75: Can you sing also?
Yea, right.
76: If not, that’s why you picked up an instrument in the first place huh? No choir for me!
.... that 's not a question.
77: Are you famous for your playing?
You guess.
78: Do you wish you were famous?
no.
79: Are you a loud player?
Sometimes, depends on the piece.
80: Or do you play more softly?
...
81: Do you have a uniform for performances?
No.
82: If so, is it hideous?
...
83: Or are you fine with it?
...
84: Have you ever had to do something gay while you are playing? Like stomping or yelling or whatever?
Yes.
85: Embarrassing isn’t it?
Only when your the only one to remember.
86: You think it’s fun?!
...
87: Is your instrument a rental or do you own it?
I pwn it. whee Okay, I don't own Jazzy, He owns me.
88: Is it trashy?
No!
89: Yea, I saw that you left it out.
90: If you live with your parents, do they make you play for them
sometimes?
Yes.
91: Your parent doesn’t play a string instrument do they?!
No.
92: Don’t you hate it when another section has to practice and you have to sit there and do nothing?
Yes!!!
93: Are you a terrible sight-reader?
Yes.
94: What is your favorite scale to do?
A Major.
95: How many bass players do you have in your orchestra?
All together, I believe there are three.
96: Is that not nearly enough?
Guess.
97: Do you ever get that electric feeling when you’re playing and it’s like the best thing ever?
Yes, I just lose myself in the music.
98: Can you get that same exact feeling with anything else?
Only the piano.
99: But it's till slightly different if you can.
Yea.
100: Do you enjoy your hobby? And plan on enjoying it for years to come?
Yes.
101: Did you notice there was no 89?
I noticed that there was one.
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