Top 10 Struggles of Being in Band

I play the clarinet, and you can hardly hear us, even when we're supposed to have the main part! Also, in my school district, barely anyone chooses to play the clarinet, so we end up with, like, 20 flute, saz, and trumpet players, and only 6 clarinet players, including me. Yeah.

I'm not in a band, but I've noticed that people only ever give credit to the lead singer most of the time and act like the other members don't exist. It's really annoying.

I play the alto saxophone, and everyone else in my section plays too loud, but I play at a good volume. Everyone thinks the alto saxophones are bad.

When they start out on a new instrument, they sound like a bus being crashed by dying elephants. This is true for everyone when they start. (Listen to our fifth graders at the beginning of the year, and you'll agree.)

This isn't really a problem for me, because I only have three valves, so mostly woodwinds have to deal with this.

The school provides me with one because they have one, so I only had to pay for mine when I played the trumpet.

My school owns instruments that are expensive. One reason I play the tuba.

Then the trumpets complain that you can't hear the tubas. And when the teacher asks us to play alone, they say we are too quiet. I am sorry. You blast, and there are six of us and twenty of you.

I play the tuba. There are only five of us and about twenty trumpets.

When I played the trumpet, I dealt with this.

This is why I chose the tuba. Only two are proportioned up if you count me.

Well, if you play brass, all I can say is good luck.

What happened was our old euphonist switched to the tuba because we needed a tubist. And a euphonium player was needed, so now I play euphonium.