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I thought of another one. It's not really wierd, but it was funny. And satisfying.
I sit next to the bass clarinet player. I can't stand him. At all. Anyway, we play Hang on Sloopy (It's a tradition my old band director started while she was still with us). The band director told us to raise our instruments as high as possible and shout "Yeah!" at the end. I did that once and hit the bass clarinet upside the head. He almost fell over and I burst out laughing, as well as everyone else. He had a big red mark on his face from the bell of my oboe.

*Thinks to herself "amatures..."*

This one time my friend and I were really bored so we put together two oboes and rennacted the wizard vs wizard scene from Lord of the Rings (using the oboes like the staffs). Come to think of it, I think we still have that one on tape...

My friend who used to play bari sax, took off his mouth piece, put a baritone mouthpiece in the hole and played it.

A trumpet player stood at the top of main stairs (two flights) then sat down on his trumpet case. He then proceeded to ride it down the stairs playing some kind of ska song on his trumpet.

Two weeks ago, I took the five marching bass drums, stacked them on top of each other, put a helmet on the very top, strung it with Christmas lights, and called it "The Bass Drum Tree". ("Oh bass drum tree, oh bass drum tree, how lovely are thine maaalleeeets! You're a treeeee for the drumline, but sadly yourrr not made of pine. Oh bass drum tree, oh bass drum tree...")

It was a really cold rehersal so our band director kept telling us to blow hot air into our instrumets. So the center snare took off his snare, held it above his head, and blew into one of the holes in the side.

I'm sure I will remember some more later...

On that note, does anyone else realize how hard it is to party dance with a bass drum on?

xd *glomps*

This one time in grade eight one of the trumpet players and a sax player got into a chasing fight. So, me being the good sectionmate that I am, was sitting at tehe nd of the row and at the sax player ran by I grabbed his neck strap and he kept running...Well, he tried. sweatdrop

Another time at Cadets our trombone player took the slide and his bell and just kind of wore it around his head for a little bit during practice. Not dumb but enh.

lmfao..those are some funny stuffz!! XD Hehehe at our school we have practices on Saturdays...rarely does many ppl attend +__+...but anyways..one Saturday when there was only like 4 ppl, these 2 ppl were twins and they play percussion and the trumpet..and this other flute player was there..anyways the twins...they act all serious and s**t in school but when you really get to know them and become good friends with them they're like...RETARDED...but one practice we had to play to this accompaniment since we were all just bored out of our minds..hehhe but the trumpet guy Michael was going crazy...i think he was high or something hehehee...he was jumpin all around the band room with his trumpet and pretending it was a guitar...so then he managed to ook like a retarded crippled guitar player of a trumpet... xd

One time I was walking over to put a beautiful Meinl Weston tuba back in its case after a rehearsal. One of my friends, a trombonist, was practicing, and his slide hit me in the leg. After stumbling on one foot for a few seconds, I regained my balance and people congratulated me on the good save. You may not think much of it, but here's the thing... I'm only 5'6".

Something the sousaphone section at my school does is what's known as the Mark Johns roll. Basically, you put your horn down, and standing up, go into a somersault. Roll so that your feet end up beneath you, and stand up in a karate-style pose. It's a crowd favorite.

I got my guitar and wacked someone in the head with it. Impersonating cartoon characters is not a wise thing to do.

*cough* I suppose my perveterdness wasn't laid on thickly enough on that last comment I made. xp