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I have a couple stories for you.

Our BD was getting us ready for our concert that night but we were in our classroom during school hours. She was tuning us with her electronic tuner so that we would be playing as if it were the real thing. She goes to all the flutes, then clarinets, then trumpets, then baritone, then tenors, the altos (;D) then tuba, then trombones. Finally we get to the piano and our piano player, Harry, said, "Seriously?" and everyone laughed. So he play middle C and then she pointed to the trumpets. And all at the same time, the drummers said, "Seriously?" The whole room burst into laughter and one of the teachers from one of the other classes came in and said, "We don't mind you playing but please keep the laughter down." and left. So one of the drummers hit the snare and out BD glared at him. He said, "What?" She sat down and said, "I've never had a drummer out of tune until now."

Later that night, the night of the concert and we were the third act so the other drummers were fiddling with the equipment so he had to retune it. We get ready for our song and she signals for all of us to bring up our instruments and he hits the snare a couple times and hits the bass drums to tune them and when he was finished, he gave us a thumbs up and the whole audience laughed. Our BD just glared at him, smiled at us, rolled her eyes and we played our song.

Stuff like this wouldn't be funny to anyone else but people in band.

Only in band can you hear a male teacher scream like a little girl in a frustrated demonstration of how the class is behaving.

...yes, this actually happened today during a sightreading of Rhapsody in Blue.
"NO. You guys are freaking out on me here! WE JUST GOT A SUPERIOR AND YOU CAN'T EVEN SIGHT READ THIS. Stop freaking out! You're going like *screams and runs off the podium* right now! STOP IT!"
There's some days where I wish I could record the entire class period and capture some of this awesomeness. Oh well...

My bd did something along those lines last eyar during marching season. He was demonstrating how we acted between school and rehearsal.
he screams, flails around and runs toward the door that leads outside. he kicks it open and runs outside. a minute or so later he coems in the hall door. Abotu a minute after that the choir director coems in and gives him a weird look. Then we all go silent, she looks around at us, shakes her head and leaves.

This was while practicing for our winter concert, while waiting for the cocnert to start.

BD: Lets do a runthrough.
We all start playing and we get to a part where it is just third clarients, which was me and a freshman. We hold ou this note for abotu 3 measures. I squeak the entire time. when we stop and rest, the freshman turns to me with ehr eye twitching.
freshman: What was that?!
Me: I'm not competely sure, but i think my clarinet just decided it didn't like that note...

Heh, I'll start out with what actually happened. It could only happen in band: You "accidentally" flip off the director/assistant director.

It was the beginning of the year, and the French Horns needed work. So the assistant director pulls the French Horns (Me included) into a practice rooms. The 2nd chair at the time, Drew, was incredibly mad at this notion. So we're playing our problem part, and Drew is purposely sticking his fingers high in the air when he lifts the keys. So he hits a note fingered 1st and 3rd valve, and he sticks up the middle finger at her. The rest of us start laughing.

That was Drew's only moment of glory. He is just annoying after that.

When the bell rings on the last day of school,i waz no longer a "freshman". But instead of saying im no longer freshmeat(thatz the traditional phrase) i said i waz no longer a rookie(band term)XD

IF you heard our full cadence shouts alone you would laugh. "I WANT A SEXY SEXY MOUSTACHE OH! ______ IS A OHHHH!!! WHOA!"