Yes....the 'Why do you like Classical music? ' Question always annoys me...
I like classical music because i play a classical instrument and simply just because i DO! If i didnt i wouldnt be playing a classical instrument...

Interesting. I know people who play what is regarded as a classical instrument but don't particularly like classical music.

I don't like classical music just because I play a classical instrument, I like because I like it.

There is this steek in my gcse music class who wanted to play my cello and had the cheek to ask "Can i play your OBOE!!!!"

like... come on! a gcse music student, and he has done it twice! and he has only just started guitar and finds grade 1 theory difficult to the point which he doesn't go to theory lessons (no wonder he finds it difficult) I really could just hit him, my music teacher hates him too

Also on the bus to shool "why does your guitar have a metal pointy thing underneath" i really do feel like stabbing them with it, and also (the cello is one of the easiest instruments, how hard can it be to put your finger on a board and use a bow) there is no such thing as the easiest instrument in general! and when they play it their fingers end up everywhere and they use the bow up where the fingerboard is which really does annoy me because i have to clean all the rosin off as its all sticky when i go to play

Steek That's a cool word!! LOL.

I know what you mean. Most of my class call Keyboards Pianos, hehe. It's like "Can I go and get a piano, and a plug"

Somebody once called my Clarinet a Trumpet. That was funny. He didn't do music though

Honestly, some people

Urgh, classic one from my dad:

'How do you play with two hands at the same time!?'

.....

Assorted questions asked by people at my previous very unmusical secondary school:

1) Have you ever been on band camp? (followed by american pie joke)
2) What's in that case...a gun? (no actually its a violin)
3) Wow that looks just like another language! What's that mean? And that? And that? etc etc etc
4) Can you play anything by *insert heavy metal band name here*? (on a flute???)
5) What is it? (sneer on face)
6) Why did you spend so much on that...wouldnt you rather spend it on something better?
7) Can i have a go?

thankfully I left!

Similar one from my mum.... She was looking at my piano music and I was explaining why it had two staves and she asked why the "one for the right hand is on the top?" and said "is it because a majority of people are right handed?"

Erm...

And in the music shop with my sister today:
"How about this one?" Nope, don't play cello
"This one?" Nope, slightly past prep test thanks.
"This one?" Nope, Certainly not grade 7 on the violin my dear.
"This one?" Nope, thats a tenor voice book". "Oh. How do you know?"

LOL Helen!!

Heeheehee!

I get annoyed when people ask me those type of questions too. Me and my other friend are like the only 2 people in the whole school practically who like classical music but I like classical music it rocks and I have done since I was about 1! And it's annoying when people are like oh my god you actually practise but ah well.

Same but the thing that annoys me is that people assume that classical music is 'boring' and say stuff like 'why dont you give up and play drums?'


I got asked that too!

love it!!



when (sometimes fellow musicians) ask "but why do you practise?" erm...i enjoy it?! why on earth do you learn an instrument if you don't like playing it?!

and from my grandad, not quite as stupid, but it made me laugh! i was playing michael nyman's 'the heart asks pleasure first' when he goes 'ahhh, this is the one from 'the snowman'...' close, i suppose....

OK, well this isnt a question but during the holidays I was practicing a bach fugue when my unmusical dad and sister decided they would come and sing along "like they do on tv", and came over singing christmas carols, very out-of-tune, at the top of their voices.....

I read that as you were pracitsing a fugue in a bath!

Not really a question, and one of the few things that irritates me slightly when I am teaching (the piano).

"I like\want to play\don't like etc THIS SONG".

No, dear. A song is something you sing. This is a piano piece; you are not singing it.

Am I an old grouch, or what?

Steve

Not an old grouch Steve!

Something much different!

That's great.

Just an old.

haha my teacher got mad at me for that! i had only had lessons maybe a term or so, we had to do listening for gcse music - i did moonlight sonata (i didn't know how famous it was then - it was just a piece on a free cd that i fell in love with) throughout my whole piece of homework i had written 'song' (i'd never been told there was a difference, although now it's so obvious!) and miss had scribbled it out and put 'piece'. my homework was returned with an explanation of piece and song, the difference between them and the reasons why i must not refer to piano music as songs....gee i love my teachers, don't know how they had the patience to put up with me!

They probably did what I do - figured they were old grouches that should not take their problems out on their students

Steve

my teacher is not an old grouch!! i love her to bits! they've all done a lot for me, teaching me the difference between a piece and a song was one of the smaller things i used to have a bit of a theory running that other instruments could 'sing' too, so technically a piece was still a song because something-or-other [insert musicians/psyco's quote here] proved that all instruments could sing, therefore moonlight sonata was a song...etc... thankfully i had the sense to never test this one out on my teacher

I suppose I shoot myself in the foot here, because I keep on telling my students to, "Make the piano sing."

Hey ho.

Steve

hehe yep! i think it was quotes like that forming the main part of my theory

A really annoying question I get in group discussions is

"Who's the best musician out of all of us?"
"That would be me, since I play -insert instruments here-"
"They're sad, I play -insert rock instruments here-"
"Yes, but I actually play *actual* music, you don't "

The person I discussed this with is actually a musician, but only a mediocre guitarist

the problem with judging 'best musicians' is that there are so many different styles, instruments etc.
like who's the best - jaqueline du pre or slash?! now some people would argue jaqueline, some would argue slash, and both would probably be right