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![sounding: sushinfood:
justamerplwithabox:
vivelafat:
prokopetz:
officialdeadparrot:
grellholmes:
elsajeni:
gunslingerannie:
justtkeepcalmm:
dean-and-his-pie:
fororchestra:
musicalmelody:
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it”
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.
On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…
Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band post
Everyone else go home
Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this
which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,
that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that
Who does that?
This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.
Julius IdontgivaFucik
More like Julius Fuckit
Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share](https://pics.onsizzle.com/sushinfood-justamerplwithabox-vivelafat-prokopetz-officialdeadparrot-grellholmes-elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm-dean-and-his-pie-69735260.png)
![sounding: PATHE
kropotkindersurprise:
moltherion:
kropotkindersurprise:
olaeinaiflou:
kropotkindersurprise:
1944 - Snowball the cat tries to take over a machine gun in Normandy so she can shoot some Nazis herself. Good luck to you, Snowball! [video]
I prefer the version that the cat tries to stop him from shouting another human being.
Well, luckily that version isn’t true, and the Nazis were defeated by shooting lots of them. Good job, Snowball!
Trench warfare, a Madsen MG, and the late revision kettle helmet point to the actually time frame of this being mid to late World War 1, British Soldiers, on the western front of the war. Probably engaged in a stalemate with German forces at Verdun, The Battle of the Somme ,or The Third Ypres Campaign.
A good attempt at sounding smart, dear porn blog, but I think you didn’t notice there’s a video link attached showing when and where it is.](https://pics.onsizzle.com/pathe-kropotkindersurprise-moltherion-kropotkindersurprise-olaeinaiflou-kropotkindersurprise-1944-snowball-the-66428027.png)
![sounding: jumpingjacktrash:
arrghigiveup:
cimness:
China's netizens are all in a twitter over the
account of a carpenter who was
commissioned to make a cinnabar red
high-backed chair with the finials at the
top to be "in the shape of dragons' heads"
(chéng lóngtóu Unfortunately, he
misinterpreted the directions to mean "lin
the shape ofl Jackie Chan's head"
("Chénglóng tóu )
(via Language Log
Reanalysis, Jackie Chan
edition)
LMAO ok so to elaborate on this absolute gem,
notice how the characters provided for "in the
shape of dragons' heads" and "lin the shape of
Jackie Chan's head" are identical? That wasn't a
typo
The thing you need to understand about
Chinese names is that they all have meaning.
And I don't mean that in the sense of "if you
trace the etymology back through two
languages it has its roots in a Hebrew phrase
that means "God is my " that many
Western names have. I mean that in the sense
of "almost all of these words are still in regular
use today and my parents very literally named
me "pretty [and] wise" in Chinese.
(Sidenote: This is why we get annoyed at made
up 'Chinese' names that just pull two random
vaguely Chinese-sounding syllables together. It
is blindingly obvious when it's not a real name).
(chéng) means "to become", "to turn into"
L (lóng) is "dragon". Thus, Jackie Chan's
Chinese stage name, (Chénglóng),
literally means "become dragon". ((tóu), of
course, means "head")
(Further sidenote: This is actually a bit of a
pun/reference. Specifically, it is a reference to
Bruce Lee, whose stage name was
(Xiãolóng), or, "Little dragon". So Jackie's
chosen stage name means both "become
dragon", and "become [like] Bruce Lee")
The other thing you need to know about
Chinese is that we don't put spaces between
terms in written text.
What all this means is that the way you'd
write "Icarvel into dragon heads" can
be identical to the way you'd write "Icarvel
Jackie Chan's head", and literally the only
difference would be where you pause when
you vocalise it: before lóngtóu, or after
chénglóng. XD
i think the chair turned out great
25 Funny Tumblr Posts to Make You Laughing Today](https://pics.onsizzle.com/jumpingjacktrash-arrghigiveup-cimness-chinas-netizens-are-all-in-a-twitter-61380025.png)
