{"id":262144,"date":"2013-08-19T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T11:04:22","slug":"elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-262144 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm\/attachment\/262145\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mjpmbudtwY1r4o1rbo1_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mjpmbudtwY1r4o1rbo1_540-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mjpmbudtwY1r4o1rbo1_540-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/elsajeni.tumblr.com\/post\/58346310892\/gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm\" target=\"_blank\">elsajeni<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gunslingerannie.tumblr.com\/post\/58319906771\/justtkeepcalmm-banasmagiccastle\" target=\"_blank\">gunslingerannie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/justtkeepcalmm.tumblr.com\/post\/58119757472\/banasmagiccastle-dean-and-his-pie\" target=\"_blank\">justtkeepcalmm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dean-and-his-pie.tumblr.com\/post\/45973088431\/fororchestra-musicalmelody-fun-story-my\" target=\"_blank\">dean-and-his-pie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fororchestra.com\/post\/45964010787\" target=\"_blank\">fororchestra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/musicalmelody.tumblr.com\/post\/45961421949\/fun-story-my-director-kept-telling-me-and-my\" target=\"_blank\">musicalmelody<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn\u2019t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy \u201cDont play this time. Just fake it\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To my readers: \u201cp\u201d means quiet, \u201cpp\u201d means really quiet. I\u2019ve never seen \u201cpppp\u201d before haha.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrast, \u201cf\u201d means loud, and \u201cffff\u201d probably means so loud you go unconscious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Me and my trombone buddies had \u201cffff\u201d and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.<\/p>\n<p>The lengths we go for music.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section \u2014 whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other\u2019s hands all <em>shhh don\u2019t call attention to it<\/em>. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, \u201cAll right, let\u2019s run through it up to section A.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent \u2014 but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don\u2019t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they\u00a0<em>do<\/em> come in, what we see is:<\/p>\n<p>[stifled giggling]<\/p>\n<p>[reeeeeeally deep breath]<\/p>\n<p>[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]<\/p>\n<p>The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn\u2019t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn\u2019t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of <em>why<\/em> gesture.<\/p>\n<p>In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: \u201cTHERE WERE FOUR F\u2019S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but <em>for the love of God why would you put it in a tuba part.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>elsajeni: gunslingerannie: justtkeepcalmm: dean-and-his-pie: fororchestra: musicalmelody: Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn\u2019t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy \u201cDont play this time. Just fake it\u201d\u00a0 Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/19\/elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7516,2,941],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262146,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262144\/revisions\/262146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}