Orchestra Instrumental Pet Peeves

[Calculus Freak]

I'll start:

- When you can't move into other positions easily.
- When you first start playing a song. SCREEEEECH!
- The Violin Bridge or string snaps
- When your conductor wants you to play long tone.
- When people keep telling you to play some popular music you don't know

Proceed, strings.

[Jackson Parodi]

I hate "musicians" who do not listen to anyone else but themselves.

[Rose the Homicidal Maniac]

When someone is like, "Can I play your violin?" and then grabs the bow around the bow hair. (GODDAMN.)

When someone doesn't clean their instrument properly and has rosin dust caked over the face of the instrument.

Breaking a string, right before or during a concert. (Did it twice. D: So lame.)

Getting hit with your stand partner's bow because there's just no ******** room on the stage. (Sorry Mick. Been hit too.)

Other than having my bowhair touched, this is my biggest peeve: When the bow grip starts to slide.

[The Freckled Onex04]

When your director can't conduct right so everyone is off.

School instruments at my school just suck. They come out of tune very very often and the pegs are too hard to move.

When your stand partner is a certain senior (James) who is the most annoying person in the world and pokes you in the face on purpose while you aren't playing.

[Calculus Freak]

Rose the Homicidal Maniac

When someone is like, "Can I play your violin?" and then grabs the bow around the bow hair. (GODDAMN.)

DON'T GET ME STARTED!

When they even grab the violin and say "HAH! I AM THE MASTER" and start screeching on purpose, and still keep playing for minutes on end o-o.

[Rose the Homicidal Maniac]

Calculus Freak

Rose the Homicidal Maniac

When someone is like, "Can I play your violin?" and then grabs the bow around the bow hair. (GODDAMN.)

DON'T GET ME STARTED!

When they even grab the violin and say "HAH! I AM THE MASTER" and start screeching on purpose, and still keep playing for minutes on end o-o.

DUDE. I sometimes visit the high school orchestra I played in, and there was this one girl that would always come up to me while I would be practicing and start moving my left hand saying, "It needs to be here." (I'd be playing a G# like it was supposed to be, and she be moving my hand to a G or some s**t.) And I'd be like, "No, that's not the right note." It pissed me the ******** off. I don't know if it was a whole senority issue (not just in school, but I was playing professionally) or if I was pissed because I didn't ask for help and felt like she was intruding or what.

But my old director asked me to pull aside during the older student's lunch hour this freshmen and tutor, and lo and behold chick comes over (after she puts up her violin) and says, "You can help me tutor her." So we're out there, and then she just keeps grabbing my violin out of my hands and then taking my bow from me by grabbing it around the middle, touching the hair. I was going nuts man, and now a part of the middle of my bow doesn't hold rosin because of this chick. I swear, if I have to rehair this (when it really doesn't) because of that, I'm going to choke her, because that was not only my best violin, but my best bow.

DON'T ******** TOUCH MY BOW. D<

I have so much anger. D:

[Calculus Freak]

Rose the Homicidal Maniac

Calculus Freak

Rose the Homicidal Maniac

When someone is like, "Can I play your violin?" and then grabs the bow around the bow hair. (GODDAMN.)

DON'T GET ME STARTED!

When they even grab the violin and say "HAH! I AM THE MASTER" and start screeching on purpose, and still keep playing for minutes on end o-o.

DUDE. I sometimes visit the high school orchestra I played in, and there was this one girl that would always come up to me while I would be practicing and start moving my left hand saying, "It needs to be here." (I'd be playing a G# like it was supposed to be, and she be moving my hand to a G or some s**t.) And I'd be like, "No, that's not the right note." It pissed me the ******** off. I don't know if it was a whole senority issue (not just in school, but I was playing professionally) or if I was pissed because I didn't ask for help and felt like she was intruding or what.

But my old director asked me to pull aside during the older student's lunch hour this freshmen and tutor, and lo and behold chick comes over (after she puts up her violin) and says, "You can help me tutor her." So we're out there, and then she just keeps grabbing my violin out of my hands and then taking my bow from me by grabbing it around the middle, touching the hair. I was going nuts man, and now a part of the middle of my bow doesn't hold rosin because of this chick. I swear, if I have to rehair this (when it really doesn't) because of that, I'm going to choke her, because that was not only my best violin, but my best bow.

DON'T ******** TOUCH MY BOW. D<

I have so much anger. D:

D'aw *pats your head*.

Such beautiful rage. (But wow, your situation is annoying)

I also hate how I play so strong and loud, with beautiful vibrato... Yet I hit the wrong note or play the rhythm just even a smidget off, and then end up being the one that gets called out to replay that measure... ALONE. o_o "WHERE ARE YOU GUYS, THE CONCERT IS JUST A WEEK AWAY!

[Delirious Penguin212]

When people just walk up to you and start plucking away at your instrument.
So Annoying.
And you tell them to stop, They pluck it very hard just to piss you off, And end up breaking your string.

[Choral Soprano]

Err, I don't play any stringed instruments, but one of my friends does. Once, before a concert with the Chorale and orchestra, I asked her if I could try the violin. I knew NOT to touch the hair on the bow, and she showed me how to use the bow.

Well, the...sound that came out was less than pleasant, and I promptly gave the violin and bow back to her after 2 seconds of playing garbage (because she needed her violin back), but her reaction was, "Well, it's better than if that idiot Tyler was playing. He thinks the bow is a damn saw." That statement from that boy pissed her off SO much.

[Calculus Freak]

Here's the one I get irritated the most:

"Hey, teach me how to play the violin sometime!"
"Sure."
-Not even 5 minutes later-
"It's too hard.." -hands back violin- "I sound horrible and I give up."

Of course nobody is going to sound good the first time they try any instrument. ._. Don't tell me Orchestra is becoming a dying breed!

[KarinMaaka16]

1. When you have a sub and they dont know what the hell we're playing
2. When Kelsey and I have to share a stand, and her scroll gets in my way
3 When Christopher steals my violia and bow and proceeds to make schreechy noises

[Calculus Freak]

KarinMaaka16

1. When you have a sub and they dont know what the hell we're playing
2. When Kelsey and I have to share a stand, and her scroll gets in my way
3 When Christopher steals my violia and bow and proceeds to make schreechy noises

Screeching noises, heh. That's only good for horror movies. At least Christopher has talent in that . 3 .

[~DJ~Skye~]

1. Hate it when you can't get a clear note beyond fifth position
2. When the pegs are slippery D:

THAT'S ALWAYS BAD.

[Sabaku No Mimori]

When someone is arrogant about their playing, they treat everyone like dirt, even though they are good, they definitely aren't THAT good.