Trumpet Players: Are we all snobs?!
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I play the trumpet in a band. Yeah, I said it. I’m a band geek and I have been since I was 10. I started playing in grade 5 at my elementary school, continued on through elementary honour band, high school band, community marching band. For most of my high school years I played in the concert band, jazz band, orchestra and a community band. I traveled to various places – Calgary, Hawaii and Europe. In fact, I have a great photo of my band playing in a giant hall in Vienna where we were broadcast on the radio there. Very cool. Or, er… not. Whatever.
Now I play in the Lynn Valley Black Bear Band in North Vancouver. Tonight in rehearsal, my music director started making jokes about trumpet players:
Q. How does a trumpet player greet another trumpet player?
A. Hi. My name is Michelle, and I’m better than you.
Nice. Thanks, Ken. Really appreciate it. So anyway, here are some more jokes that poke fun at trumpet players:
Q. How many trumpet players does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Five. One to change the lightbulb and four more to tell him how much better they could have done it.
And my personal favourite…
Q: What do lead trumpet players use for birth control?
A: Their personality.
I loved this post. I have also played in band all my life, first in high school, then in university, then the Air Cadet band in Montreal, and now the Vancouver Concert Band (www.vancouverconcertband.ca). I play the flute. And yes, I went to band camp (at least the memory of American Pie is starting to fade from peoples’ minds).
I’ve heard lots of jokes about flute players (basically, they all have something to do with how we’re all prima donnas – as if!) and I especially like this one:
Q: What is perfect pitch on a flute?
A: When it misses the rim of the toilet as you throw it in.