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 Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:27 pm
Yeah I'm in high school and I can honestly say I WANNA GO BACK TO elementary.I can't take it lol
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:28 pm
Shinigami_huntress If I had my way in Marching Band the whole show would be an oboe solo with marching band back up... But, unfortunately it hasn't happened yet. I play in percussion usually, sometimes I play clarinet... But I would rather play Theodor (my oboe). Marching season is such a drag for me. It is three months of separation from my oboe. It's just not fair. But, the upside is that being in percussion (well, being in pit or auxilery drumline *which I am) you don't have to do anything really. Plus I can sit around working on solo and ensable music and audition music while everyone is out marching. I was in band once didn't work out that well.. I played the clarinet..
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:44 pm
Vampyre Slayer69 @saxysoul Oh my god. Contras cost about $7,000 for a CHEAP one. A GOOD one costs about $15,000-$40,000. I'd like to start contra as well, BUT THEY ARE WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. The cheapest one I found online was an off brand for $7,449 with insurance it is $8,148. http://band-orchestra.musiciansfriend.com/product/Amati-ABN36-Contra-Bassoon?sku=464436 I recommend borrowing a school instrument (if your school has one) instead. Heh... my bassoon teacher told me once "If you want to get your own contra, forget about it. Borrow another person's instrument and get yourself a car." Even he, who has played both bassoon and contra for 40 years borrows his friend's for concerts. the thing is- I live in a small town in southern alberta, Canada. I don't know if anyone has noticed this. but canadas music programs aren't usually as good as other countries, and small towns are even worse. xD I don't think anybody in my entire quarter of the province owns a contra bassoon, and the only reason out school has a regular one is because the old BD was a bassoonist and felt like it was a nessecity. so, in short, the only option i have is buying one....
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:29 pm
*Ahem*
DOUBLE REEDS RULE!
Just had to get that off of my chest.. Any-who..
I was playing Piccolo in marching band, but due to an error in the drill I now play synthesizer in front ensemble. *cough*PIT*cough*
Funny how that happens, isn't it?
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:42 pm
@saxysoul
To be honest, that's not your only option. There's always the option of NOT TAKING UP CONTRA. About half of even professional bands/orchestras don't even have a contra bassoon. In my town, it is viewed as what a rich person with too much time on their hands get. We have one contra bassoon player in my district, and he lives on the rich side of town and can basically play every instrument on the planet amazingly. Didn't you say earlier that bassoon wasn't even your first instrument? Personally, it is mine and I'd love a contra... but I kind of want to be able to go to college, so I can't afford a $40,000 instrument. And the cheaper ones are usually barely playable. So I'd recommend giving up on a contra bassoon.
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:25 am
Moonlight_Bandit I play the oboe as my main insturment, I haven't actually marched before so yea omgezerz me 2!!
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:35 pm
I play Tenor Sax for marching band, and Alto Sax for symphonic, but I plan to switch to bassoon for symphonic. Our only bassoonist (who is also our pianist and drum major) was ecstatic when I told her that I wanted to play bassoon. I guess its because she is the only bassoonist and she's graduating next year, and she wants someone to carry on the tradition.
I really want to switch because now we have like 10 alto saxes (which is a lot for our band) and our low woodwind section only has one bassoon, one bass clarinet, and one contrabass clarinet. The only thing that might hold me back from playing bassoon is the $10+ cost of the reed! I wish they were cheaper... Oh well...
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:54 pm
Lol I play flute but I recently restarted up the bassoon! Lol! I only play like three notes xD since that's all I can get out. We're learning some new music for an upcoming concert and one of the pieces we sight-read had a bunch of sixteenth notes and I was like "o3o uh... can not play" lol
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:40 am
PrincessPomeranian Lol I play flute but I recently restarted up the bassoon! Lol! I only play like three notes xD since that's all I can get out. We're learning some new music for an upcoming concert and one of the pieces we sight-read had a bunch of sixteenth notes and I was like "o3o uh... can not play" lol
One of my friends that plays flute wants to learn bassoon. I know how you feel, though...starting oboe last year and sight reading stuff scared me like crazy. xd I couldn't play any of it.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:10 pm
@Terra of the Lilies
xD. My band teacher when I was in eighth grade (that was when I first started up and then I stopped at the end of the year) said that it was odd that I, a flutist, wanted to play bassoon because it's simply obvious that they've almost nothing in common. I think it's amazing though, and also when I try out for honor band stuff I'll just play bassoon since there's a lot of competition on flute, xD
You started oboe last year, correct? How are you doing with it now?
@SLAPTHEB1TCHUPTHEARSE
lol I understand how you feel about reed costs. When I got my bassoon for this year, whoever played it last left a reed in it, and I know this is going to sound completely strange and people would be like, "oh, my goodness," about it, but it looked like it wasn't used and I've been playing on it for the past few days and I haven't gotten sick yet. lol but if they weren't so gosh darn expensive I would go out and get a personal stash of like a billion of them (they are fun to make that duck noise on when you're bored). -sigh- I remember when I played clarinet in the sixth grade and the reeds were so cheap! You could get like ten of them for five dollars. Frickin clarinets, jk I love you don't hurt me. xD
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:21 pm
It's going pretty well. I'm not sure when I started to improve, but I know that after at least four months I could play most of our concert band music, and my tone improved a lot. I was complimented on my tone by a professional oboe player in Boston around that time, she said I had a good ear for pitch. :] I just got done with being in pit orchestra for my school's production of Cinderella. I got to play english horn for that, along with oboe. It went pretty well, other than my reed splitting down the middle today before my solo at the end...I destroyed that reed when I got back to the band room. I was angry. xd
All in all, I'm really liking oboe now. I'm hoping that sometime I'll be able to get private lessons...or at least have someone to help me out with learning how to make reeds and such. I want to get my own oboe, considering the school one is horrible, but I have no money, nor any idea how I would go about doing that.
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:42 pm
Yea BASSOONS!!!!
I've been playing bassoon for three years now, but i started clarinet 2 years before the bassoon and still play it.
during marching band season, i either play percussion or clarinet. it sorta depends on how many people are in each section.
isnt it sad how there arent as many double reed players as there are for instruments like the trumpet or flute?! i mean, COME ON!!! the bassoons and oboes are the best instruments!!! I LIVE for the bassoon!!! we need more bassoons!!!
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:55 pm
Its funny Sing_Star, it looks like we started both the clarinet and the bassoon around the same time. In fact very close. surprised
I started bassoon in November of 2006 and clarinet in very early 2005.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:34 pm
@Terra of the Lilies
That's good. LOL! I once destroyed one of my reeds when I first started playing in eighth grade after this kid who wasn't even in band was messing around in the band room when I came in during lunch one day to practice. I seriously wanted to strangle him right then and there. Yeah, school instruments are never really that good of quality unless the program is doing well and they have a lot of money and could actually afford it. If you can get lessons, then that would be amazing. Even though a lot of people are like, "Oh, I'm good. I don't need lessons.", there is ALWAYS room for improvement.
@Sing_Star8684
I agree with you but I also want to mention a possible fact of the low numbers to that the instruments themselves are not cheap. The bassoon I am playing right now was originally in the thousand-dollar range (I'm so glad it's a school instrument I don't have to pay teeheez) and that's a huge difference compared to the price of my flute, my primary instrument, which was purchased at around one hundred dollars, maybe two hundred dollars. And also, I like to remember the fact that, with less bassoon players in my area, I have a greater chance of making it into an honor band versus the thousands of flutes who try out. ^-^ There are always odd "reasons" why things are the way they are. But bassoons are awesome. xD
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:21 pm
PrincessPomeranian @Terra of the Lilies
That's good. LOL! I once destroyed one of my reeds when I first started playing in eighth grade after this kid who wasn't even in band was messing around in the band room when I came in during lunch one day to practice. I seriously wanted to strangle him right then and there. Yeah, school instruments are never really that good of quality unless the program is doing well and they have a lot of money and could actually afford it. If you can get lessons, then that would be amazing. Even though a lot of people are like, "Oh, I'm good. I don't need lessons.", there is ALWAYS room for improvement.
Whenever kids who aren't in band come into the band room, everything stops and we just stare at them...it just kind of happens, I guess. xd I personally think our program is doing well, but if I remember correctly, we only get $1000 each year. D= I'm probably gonna ask my parents about lessons around Christmas. My middle school band director has offered to give me some suggestions if I ever want them, since he knows a lot of double reed players, apparently. So I'll probably ask him about that when I go to see their winter concert. =D
Edit: Oh yeah! Guess who was just told their director wants them to have an oboe solo in marching band next year? =]
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