Don't you ever wish you played flute?

[Bethelbass1]

I always get this comment. People think they are extremely clever for saying and I have to just nod and say "sure".

Does anyone have witty comments they have heard so often that they just make you want to laugh or say,
"I've never heard that one before"

[jgbass]

I always get the comment "you should have played picollo."

I just smile and say I left mine at home. I really do have one I inherited from my grandfather. Or, I say, maybe in the next life.

Comes with the territory, although today I heard from another female "you must have really get upper body strengh." True, I liked that one and told her that I have discovered muscles I never knew I had, started laughing, and flexed my triceps.

[Wil Davis]

I do play the flute - but I think I have more fun playing the double-bass.

[Alexi David]

I've often told people that I play a flute on Steroids...

[Marcus Johnson]

Nope. Here's why...

...bass unemployment line

.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ......flute unemployment line

The big girl has served me well over the years.

[Bijoux]

Yeap, I get the flute think all the time. but worst than that is that people believe I play the Cello, and on one occasion a girl almost got into an argument with me trying to convince me that I played the cello instead of the bass.

[Chasarms]

Originally Posted by Bijoux

Yeap, I get the flute think all the time. but worst than that is that people believe I play the Cello, and on one occasion a girl almost got into an argument with me trying to convince me that I played the cello instead of the bass.

I had a similar experience with someone who I actually took for a reasonably-experienced musician. Rather than pursuing a fruitless argument, I decided to say:

"It's a bass cello."

[Mike Crumpton]

I always get "that's a big guitar" or sometimes "how do you get that under your chin" to which the answer is (borrowed from Don Weller) "I keep my mouth shut"!

[Michael Case]

Bye the 12th "why didn't you choose the violin?" I say "I did, but it kept growing!"

[oliebrice]

Originally Posted by Mike Crumpton

I always get "that's a big guitar" or sometimes "how do you get that under your chin" to which the answer is (borrowed from Don Weller) "I keep my mouth shut"!

I use that too!

[Ed Fuqua]

As per MAKE US BEWELL, " No, cause if I played flute I'd be sitting at home instead of going to a gig". Then mutter "****ing moron" under your breath.

[ee-san]

I recently heard: "That's a big guitar." Reply was: "Is asked for the size large but they were all out."

[Sophie]

The best I heard the other day was:
-What's that?
-It's a double bass
-Oh. Is it true they don't have frets?


Never, I repeat NEVER take a bass on the london underground at rush hour on a saturday evening in the sales...

[Alexi David]

Yeah, next time I'll tell 'em it's a Baglama with a pituitary disorder - thus inserting two words that most idiots wouldn't know

[Kat_Mia]

I use the 'I keep my mouth shut' line too! Leaves some people speechless.

I do play the flute and the piccolo but bass is more fun.

I was once at a day rehearsal for my orchestra but I joined the wind orchestra for their rehearsal too. I was walking through the doorway to the rehearsal hall and a parent turns to me and says 'Goodness, that looks a little heavy; Don't you ever wish you played the flute?' And as if by magic I whip out a piccolo from my shoulder bag and say 'I do!' 'Oh' was the answer. I think somepeople think that because you play such a big instrument it's impossible to do anything else?

[McHaven]

playing tuba i always get "Wow, what a big trumpet!" or just the other day i got "Wow, what a big tuba!" What the hell? Have you seen a soprano tuba or something? Tubas are Tubas you moron.... Ignorance is the worst thing on earth

[nicklloyd]

When I was younger I used to haul my bass around on the "T" in Boston. During one commute I came across a guitar player...

GP: "Huh! That sucks, carrying that big thing around."
me: "Where are you going?"
GP: "Rehearsal.... where are you going?"
me: "A gig."

I also once heard a six-year-old girl correct her father. She said "No, daddy, that's not a cello, that's a double bass."

[JTGale]

At least playing double bass we never have to hear that awful American Pie joke, "And this one time, at band camp ... "

[Marcus Johnson]

Originally Posted by JTGale

At least playing double bass we never have to hear that awful American Pie joke, "And this one time, at band camp ... "

Whoa...now there's an image that'll stay in my head for awhile

[mister_k]

Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson

Whoa...now there's an image that'll stay in my head for awhile

this one time, in the emergency room..........