Double Bass Don't you ever wish you played flute?

[bbates77]

A friend of mine plays the bassoon, she was practicing at home one day and the neighbour came around and asked her if she could stop playing her trumpet. She might have done if he hadn't just insulted her!!!

 

[bbates77]

To my reply "It's a double bass", my interrogator asked:
"And where's the other half?"

I get people asking "...and what does a single bass look like?"

 

[knarleybass]

Depends on who says it to me, but generally I say, "oh, I do blow a mean flute, what are you doing later on?"

 

[stockbass]

I play both double bass and tuba. I'm quite often approached by strangers saying: "Wow that's really BIG!"

If it's a girl I blush a little bit and just say "Thank you" or "oh, is my fly open?!" or "yea, I know that size matters"

 

[zeppelinfreak]

Actually a euphonium is often considered a tenor tuba and, there is quite a difference in size between an FF and a 6/4 BBb.

But if they knew the difference they wouldnt say its a big tuba.

Do you play tuba?

Just wondering.

 

[Marc Neihof]

Q:"I bet you wish you took up the flute"
A:"So will you once I get finished shoving this bass up your ass"

 

[musicrazy]

I don't think there's a single bassist who hasn't gotten the "Don't you wish you played [insert anything smaller than a bass here]?"

 

[mcnaire2004]

I don't think there's a single bassist who hasn't gotten the "Don't you wish you played [insert anything smaller than a bass here]?"

People have asked me if I wish I had played just about every instrument in the orchestra at one point or another.

 

[Zayn8]

From my physics teacher I had: "Have you been feeding your violin again?" Which I thought was quite good. But then, waiting outside the music room after school, a bunch of year-tens came out of the room, and almost en masse:

"That's a big guitar!"

0_o

 

[bbates77]

Here I am procrastinating, surfing the web at 2am in the morning. The cleaner walks in.

The cleaner, by the way, had previously called my bass a cello. I didn't correct her for politeness.

Anyway, she just walks in and says "hello stranger" (I've been on holiday for a month and I packed my bass away) ... "Where's your big..." she stops.

Straight away I thought of this thread and the comments, almost replying "Dick?" But I didn't. I told her it was in the room downstairs. I wasn't going to be cruel.

 

[bassplayer57]

From my physics teacher I had: "Have you been feeding your violin again?" Which I thought was quite good. But then, waiting outside the music room after school, a bunch of year-tens came out of the room, and almost en masse:

"That's a big guitar!"

0_o

People call my bass a Banjo.

 

[Adam Booker]

What always used to make me smile was walking back to my car from a gig on 6th street and having large groups of drunk, attractive coeds say "Wow, that's really big!" Sometimes it's the little inside jokes that keep me going.

 

[mark.tomko@mac.]

I always say, "Obviously, you're not a golfer."

 

[bbates77]

I always say, "Obviously, you're not a golfer."

In reply to what exactly?

 

[mark.tomko@mac.]

In reply to what exactly?

"Don't you wish you played the piccolo?"

 

[ao'connor17]

i get the help thing or "wow that looks heavy" usually my dad is a great sport and carries it for me (im fourteen) but i can carry it just fine. when someone offers to help i milk for all its worth. im like "can you get that door for me?"
"sure!"
"that door too, and that door and that door and that one 20 feet in front of me..."

it usually works

 

[Paul Warburton]

I always wait for this one: Nice looking chick says: " Boy it must get tiresome lugging that big thing around all day "
I say: "This bass isn't exactly light either "

 

[Stan Haskins]

Ba-dum-pum.

 

[Stan Haskins]

A Flute player (cute young thing) told me I have "a good flute=playing body" last month.

 

[bassplayer57]

i get the help thing or "wow that looks heavy" usually my dad is a great sport and carries it for me (im fourteen) but i can carry it just fine. when someone offers to help i milk for all its worth. im like "can you get that door for me?"
"sure!"
"that door too, and that door and that door and that one 20 feet in front of me..."

it usually works

The people here must not be as nice! LOL! Probably because my case has wheels?!?!?