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I somtimes like to play my bassoon without the bell biggrin

At Freshman UIL, we had some free time and I decided to try and play a Trombone. Everybody was playing each other's instruments and I had the crazy idea to try and birth a bassoon-o-bone. Yes, marry a trombone and bassoon. Amazingly, the resulting thing actually made a pretty nice sound. Of course the position was just weird!

My old band director was the greatest. He threatened our lives nearly every day. He threw his baton while conducting and also threw highlighters at people. There was also this time in Sightreading at Pre-UIL (Thank God) That he forgot the last page. He was explaining the piece and it seemed like it ended with a fermata. Well, it didn't, so when we were playing and hit the fermata and didn't put our instruments down, he decided to turn the page. His face was priceless, so we finished that piece solely by luck, no practice involoved biggrin

We have 8th position on our trombones! We peg the flutes in the back of there heads with out slides. To make it work make sure there is lots of oil on it

heh heh...my guy friend placed the bell of his clarinet between his legs and played a low (below the staff) E and said the vibrations felt cool. then proceeded to suggest myself and his girlfriend try it...

("this one time, at band camp...")

lol.

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You could pretend your bassoon was a bazooka my friend wanred to do it sweatdrop

Back in middle school, my fellow trumpet players and myself discovered that if you put your trumpet bell on the seats of the metal folding chairs, and played, it sounded like a fart. We'd be sitting in class and doing then and the teacher would be like, ok who did that. We don't do it anymore though.

in my group our conducter lost control of his baton and clock the trumpeteer in the head. in return the trumpeteer stop playing, took of his mouth peice, and clocked the conducter again.

one time earlier this year (marching season) my friend whose a sophomore he plays tuba and he used to always put his tuba over my head and say "ya head in my tuba!" in this hilarious voice...it was so funny you would have to b there to laugh and his name is Dwayne but when i first met him and asked his name i thought he said lorraine and to this day i call him that domokun

I can get Clarinet reeds really really cheap and I buy like 3 boxes of 10, I go around the band room throwing them like ninja stars but I just throw them straight. This came in really good use one time, a trombone oil his slide so much while he was playing it went across the WHOLE ENTIRE BAND ROOM and hit me in the head. Imagine a Trombone slide at the very back of the room and hitting me, the first Clarinet in the front of the room... so I stood on my chair and held three reeds, and well lets just say one hit him in the eye and he has a scar on his right cheek stare stare stare stare