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04-21-2006, 09:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Orchestral Personalities
If you've heard Garisson Keiler's Young Luthern's guide to the Orchestra" you've probably noticed that certain players of certain instrument usually have a personality trait.
What have you noticed?
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04-23-2006, 09:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia | | | huge ego trumpet players!
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04-24-2006, 12:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson, Nevada | | | Violinists tend to be very competitive. |
04-24-2006, 12:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | Bass players tend to be very inebriated. |
04-24-2006, 02:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia | | | cellists are often very meloncholy
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04-24-2006, 02:42 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Is that getting depressed by eating too many melons!!?? 
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04-24-2006, 04:00 AM
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Originally Posted by PaulCannon Bass players tend to be very inebriated. |  |
04-24-2006, 06:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Southeast Michigan | | | There were a pair of sisters in my high school who played the harp- we called them the Harp Sisters. One played the cello, too. Very popular, they were. And anyone who's played in an orchestra knows what they say about these two instruments.... |
05-25-2006, 02:01 PM
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05-25-2006, 10:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chattanooga Tennessee | | | I notice first violins are preppy/hot/cool happy people, soconds are quiet trying not to get noticed. Violas are stuck up around other violist and cello's are focust/sad and basses are laid back show offs. If that makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Snakewood Hell man, we're bass players, I wouldn't trade this for anything. | |
05-26-2006, 12:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, TX | | | Violins are obsessive-compulsive.
Violas are usually geniuses.
Cellos are about as snooty as violinsts, but share some bass-like behavior qualities outside of rehearsal.
Basses are typically pranksters.
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05-26-2006, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by anthem274 Violins are obsessive-compulsive.
Violas are usually geniuses.
Cellos are about as snooty as violinsts, but share some bass-like behavior qualities outside of rehearsal.
Basses are typically pranksters. | lol true
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Originally Posted by Snakewood Hell man, we're bass players, I wouldn't trade this for anything. | |
05-28-2006, 04:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Maple Valley, WA | | | IME, violists have less self-confidence.
And girl bass players, while there is nothing wrong at all (don't get offended for me even thinking that way, ok?), but IME have a distasteful dominant personality.
Guy violin players tend to be like guy trumpet players, full of confidence and ego, while girl violin players tend to be observant and more reserved IME.
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05-30-2006, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Daniel Baskin ...girl violin players tend to be observant and more reserved IME. | I could give you a couple of strong counter examples, but not without inviting a libel suit ;-)
Violin soloists all tend to be rather self-posessed. First violins can be a bit smug. Second violins are either relaxed, self assured people, or full of anxiety and doubt about not being first violinists. Violists know they could be violinists if they really wanted to.
It's often said that a string quartet is composed of a good violinist, a bad violinist, an ex-violinist, and a person who hates violinists, all getting together to complain about composers. |
05-30-2006, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Daniel Baskin And girl bass players, while there is nothing wrong at all (don't get offended for me even thinking that way, ok?), but IME have a distasteful dominant personality.
. | That wasn't very nice. YOU BETTER APOLOGIZE OR I'LL MAKE YOU APOLOGIZE!! j/k.
we're not all so bad. Maybe we feel like we have to compensate for our lack of burly machoness. |
05-30-2006, 11:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Toronto | | This could be taken the wrong way, but most female bass players I have seen were offensively attractive and annoyingly good. I think we need more. No body really has more bottem end than a lady  |
05-31-2006, 05:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Scott McC This could be taken the wrong way, but most female bass players I have seen were offensively attractive and annoyingly good. I think we need more. No body really has more bottem end than a lady | You started off so well...
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
05-31-2006, 09:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Toronto | | | My apologies. The door opened. I am always learning about discretion. |
06-16-2006, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
06-16-2006, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott McC No body really has more bottem end than a lady | Isn't there a parable about a war being started due to a misplaced comma? |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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