Hey Het Hey! I`m from Venezuela (south america) and i play the viola too.........and here in my place the viola is discriminated too..........o my gosh! the Viola is discriminated all over the world...........i though the reputation of the viola was better in other places........but.......i have notice that is the same everywhere! that`s unfair! unbelieveble!! we are not part of the stupid elite of the violinist!! we are so much better than them!! We keep the orchestra in harmony!! and i`ve heard all the stupids jokes about violas........¬¬ and they`re NOT FUNNY! i`ve always try to find the joke.......but i just don`t get it! well my violist players let`s keep higher our Violistic Pride!! don`t give up!! we know we are the best!! aaand, well if you don`t undrestarnd me or find a grammatical error on this post or simply....all that i`ve writed doesn`t make any sence..........remember.......i speak spanish....hehe! cause i`m from venezuela (south america)..........bye keep playing the most important part of the orchestra.............THE VIOLA..........byesss.....adiositos!!

hey i forgot to ask u! what kind of repertoire are you guys playing at the orch right now??? just curious.......well...cya....q esten bien!

I just started viola a few months ago. I picked it because I knew there was a higher demand for them. I like their sound better too. somethimes violins are just too high!!

Im in 7th grade and im in orchestra. And i play the Viola! Hurrah! Well, anyways, in our 7th grade orchestra, there are about 10 cellos, 10 violas, 50 violins and 1 bass. In one of our recent concerts we played Dance of the Tumblers and in one part the Violas have a solo, keeping the beat for the plucking violins. And even though we were using our bows the violins were still just as loud as us.

I think there are less Violas because they arent as popluar as violins, like when you listen to an orchestra play, you mostly hear violins playing the melody. But violas are important too!

My sister played the violin. She started teaching me how to play the summer before we picked instruments, and i didnt want to be exactly like her, so i picked viola, and im happy too!

you have a huge class! i play in the 8th grade orchestra and we have about 15 violins i think, 5 violas, 4 cellos, and 1 stringed bass.

hey hey hey! well that`s very huge! that`s great.....yeap well in the last concert we had we played Marche Slave-tchaikovsky....hehe....do you like the music of tchaikovsky?? what`s your favorite composer?? i like very much J.S. Bach and Vivaldi.....oh my god i love his music! what about you??

My orchestra has 11 rock your socks violists!

Hows it hangin?

did someone think of a piece that gives violas over 4 seconds of melody?

I think that there are so few Violist because not a lot of people know about violas. In addition, the violin over shadows the viola in popularity.

HELLO, IM A VIOLIST, Wahoo, i <3 it, im in school orchestras, n im the only 1 in school! i feel so privaledged! lol evry !****! orchestra in my school is lyk come perform 4 us, n have had 2 go in2 yr 7 music class 2 explain wht a viola is n 2 demonstrate it! n stuff lyk tht, kol HA HA, so yh, violinsist suk, there r 2 many of em, have bin playing viola 4 bout 10 yrs, n hav neva evn thought 2wice bout giving it up! lol i wna pursue it 2 hav a career! lol

I can`t believe two other venezuelans had posted here, I am Venezuelan too and want to start to play viola. It would be nice to find more venezuelans viola players and maybe chat on msn. I used to be in the national symphony orchesta but I used to paly french horn. I miss the orchesta world so much, I want to come back but now as a viola player. In my orchesta there were around 20 viola players and they were quite popular. The violinist were geek and really low people. The violinists used to say they were the best and violist didn`t talk to much people but they were really sophisticated, elegant and most of them were really pretty. I know it sounds impossible, but that was the situation in my orchesta a few years ago

Well.. i am nly 14 and i have been playing the viola for like 5 years now...:P i luv the viola...but wat i dont understand is how few pplz know wat i viola is!! i mean like really...without a viola u cant really have a good srting quortet or a COMPLETE orchestra. The thing i like about the Viola is it has the notes of a cello but it is as fun as the violin (i sould know) anywayz that is all :P

Hi my name is denise. I play the viola and have been for almost 3 years. Now I'm in the 8th grad eand I also am in my city's youth orchestra program. the las vegas youth orchestras. I don't want to brag or anything but I think that I'm the best violist at my school. We have a lot of violist there. I think I'm the best in the school because. well you se we had to audition to get into LVYO and I got into a group with high school kids. 8th grade is the lowest grade in the group that I got into and I got into it. The 1st chair violist (my best friend) tried out and she got into the lower one. She didn't even deserve 1st chair. I don't know why violas are so uncommon. In my beg class we had like 5 or 6 violists and we were the best section. always together and everything. I also play the cello and bass. I don't care much for the violin. (too squeaky....no offense to the violin players out there) I think the viola should be more common. I mean it has a rich chocolaty sound to it. thats why I chose it. and its the perfect size.

cool, yea most people dont like the viola cuz its not the MAIN part, thats what i think, if someone else said this my bad i didnt read the whole thread.