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 Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:15 am
I seem to remember some band members putting Christmas bows on their bells during holiday concerts of years past . . .
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:21 am
On our final day of homecoming, three of the four tenors (including me) wrapped garland around their instruments and marched around the school with the garland. It was so cool. XD
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:21 am
Durza the Shade I seem to remember some band members putting Christmas bows on their bells during holiday concerts of years past . . . During one of our concerts in jr. high there were a lot of people who decorated their instruments with ribbons and stuff. The teacher said that if you were going to do it it couldnt get in the way of your playing. We can't do that now, but we were allowed to wear santa hats this year.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:24 am
I got to wear a santa hat while playing the sleigh bells during our winter concert...
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:37 am
At our Christmas concert, one of the euphonium players put Christmas lights on his instrument.
One of my cello teachers could play his cello like a guitar, turning it on its side and strumming it. It did not sound as good as a guitar like that, of course, but it was funny.
A tuba player/jazz pianist friend of mine smeared a dab of peanut butter inside the bell of his tuba, took a photo of his dog inside the bell (he had a beagle so it could fit in there), and that was the picture he and his mom sent with their Christmas cards.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:14 am
What I do sometimes with my bassoon is act like it's some sort of... Flame-thrower or bazooka. It's hilarious because everyone like "hides" under their chairs or something.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:49 am
Kaiser Eline I got to wear a santa hat while playing the sleigh bells during our winter concert... Usually when we play a christmas concert people will dress themselves up and attach lights throughout their tuxes. Id have to say that one of the most interesting things i've done with an instrument would be the time i was playing trap set in front of a bunch of people when my drum stick broke and since i angle my snare towrds me, it came back and hit me in the head and all i could do was shake it off, flip the stick over to keep playnig. And all the while everyone was laughing at me. 0_o
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:52 am
Miangel On our final day of homecoming, three of the four tenors (including me) wrapped garland around their instruments and marched around the school with the garland. It was so cool. XD i think my french horn still has garland on it from the jazz christmas concert thing (i heart Hilaritas). in one of the songs, all the french horns put on sunglasses for this fun james bond sounding part cool
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:03 pm
Plunger Man What I do sometimes with my bassoon is act like it's some sort of... Flame-thrower or bazooka. It's hilarious because everyone like "hides" under their chairs or something. Oh, yeah, I'll sometimes pretend my clarinet is a rifle, or rocket launcher, depending on which end is pointed forward. I used to swing it like a lightsaber, too, but stopped after it came apart and one of the keys was bent. That was a long time ago . . .
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:07 pm
Durza the Shade Plunger Man What I do sometimes with my bassoon is act like it's some sort of... Flame-thrower or bazooka. It's hilarious because everyone like "hides" under their chairs or something. Oh, yeah, I'll sometimes pretend my clarinet is a rifle, or rocket launcher, depending on which end is pointed forward. I used to swing it like a lightsaber, too, but stopped after it came apart and one of the keys was bent. That was a long time ago . . . People at my school do that too. By friend holds/plays her bass clarinet like a guitar.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:34 pm
I twacked my friend with my flute once when he was being an idiot. eek I also spun that thing like a baton. domokun
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:42 pm
Our section leader taught us to knit, and we all took the scarves we knit and shoved them into our mellos, and when we had to play we'd complain that the sound wouldn't come out. Then the director came over and said, "Why is there no mello sound?" and we said, "There's something in our instrments!" So by the time he got done pulling scarf after scarf from our mellos, he could barely stand he was laughing so hard.
Or we take the paper cups we get water in at football games and shoot the cups from our bells. Only the mellos can, Trombone is too long, Baritone's bell is too big, and trumpet too small. We shot the drum majors and gaurd and each other. It was the best!
Our head drum major borrowed my friend's flute, named "El Crappo" and used it as a baton for a run-through once. It was great.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:20 pm
I used my flute as a sword and got in a fight once...it's safe to say it was damaged badly.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 5:31 pm
I'm new but I have lots of interesting things from my two bands.
In my cadet marching band we have a barry sax and have discovered to flutes fit down the bell at once. Also we put the barry sax on the smallest kid.. it was almost as tall as her...
I personaly have a few interesting trumpet mouth piece stories. I got it stuck at cadets and two officers played tug-a-war with my trumpet... Got it stuck AGAIN and had to take it to my school band teacher who got the screw stuck on top of the already stuck mouthpice and I had to go get the janitor to remove that..
Can't remember any other ones at this momet but I know there were alot more.. my bands are.. er odd...
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:16 pm
The weirdest thing I've personally ever done with an instrument is decorate it with Christmas bows and ribbons. It used to be our school's tradition, but then some idiots decided to decorate so much that they couldn't play. Our band director flipped out and banned decorating instruments all together.
The tuba in our band is really small... and weird. He put the entire mouthpiece in his mouth and tried to play. I call him the crazed, rabid chipmunk. Don't ask why. O.o xp
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