I`ve tried to join in on the MUSICAL part of this discussion more than once.... yet you all don`t respond to what I have to say..... If you want a musical discussion, please recoginize the fact that I can contribut too!! Thanks!

does any body know of ar need a sa xa phone player i am 20 female who loves jazz,blues,funk,anything realy desperatly wants to make it in music. grade 8 standard i live in bournemouth but londons fine! please help thanxs!

I am one of those people who are really fed up with viola jokes, I mean, cmon!! Your orchestras would sound like crap without us, and, anyway, We violists get more Scholerships.





:] Another proud violist :]

I am a violist and I think that all the violists should unite and attack everyone that makes fun of us.

I`m a violist. I think some viola jokes are funny. Yeah, people make fun of us. But why? Beats me, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and take it.

On a brighter note, here is a stringed instrument joke:

I was over at my teacher`s house warming up and his cats were listening to me. Everytime I pulled the bow across the strings, the cats would make an un-godly howling and screeching sound. My playing was just fine so I began to wonder why they were putting up such a fuss. Then it hit me and I told the cats "Relax, guys. My strings are steel."

ha ha ha

I started playing viola in the fourth grade. I always watched the older kids liked the 5th graders play the string insturments and i decided i wanted to play one too! I automatically did not want to play the violin or cello. in my opinion, the viola has a much nicer, calmer sound. It has lower notes then the violin but higher then the cello! it seemed like the perfect insturment. I am still playing viola today and i still think it is the best string insturment out there.

wow! 6th year? how old r u? iv played tenor sax for 3 years, and have played barry sax. i can play only 9 scales (wish i could play more) and know chromatic 2 octaves. band is the best thing that`s ever happened to me-it`s the ONLY class i look forward to in the school day.

no1s realli made viola jokes 2 me. i started playing viola in the 5th grade nd im in 8th grade now. thers less violas than violins in orchestra, so thers less seats 2 get accepted 2... rite? so it shood hav more pressure on the violists on auditions cus thers not alot of seets.