Poll: What's your favourite Orchestral Instrument?

[Flac00]

Clarinet, naturally.

We rock the wood sound like you wouldn't believe.

Me and a friend play in several orchestras, and we are constantly slagging off each other's instruments, he being a flautist, and I a trumpeter.

I'm required by the code of woodwind solidarity to take his side. This is further exacerbated by you being a trumpeter, and therefore competition.

...punk.

Oh look at you and your fancy mellow-ness.

*Narrows eyes*

So say the guy with the instrument so lazy it uses eight fingerings to play fifty billion notes!

*rimshot*

It's amusing, because in an orchestra I play in I sit behind the clarinets, and I've given at least two of them headaches on several occasions (Not by playing especially loudly on purpose, but because I have some especially loud solos (March to the Scaffold springs to mind)

Never had to worry about that in my band (we had the saxophones behind us). The flutes had to deal with it, though.

Heh. Ever get mutes as gag gifts?

Ha! On the cello we can play millions of notes, and do VABRATO! You wish you could do that. CELLO ALL THE WAY!

 

[Flac00]

The cello, with its human-voice range and such rich timbre and range of expression. An instrument you can feel the music flowing through you, and play so very mournfully. A single cello can fill a hall with emotion.

You cannot beat a cello

 

[MEEBO17]

I play the trumpet, so that?

 

[Flac00]

Cello ^^

And yes, the Viola is a shitteh rip-off of the Violin. :/

And the violin is a cello that had stunted growth.

 

[me.vicky]

Does piano not count as an orchestral instrument? I guess that means I have to go with the triangle. *ding*

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Does piano not count as an orchestral instrument? I guess that means I have to go with the triangle. *ding*

Unfortunately not.

Although the Piano is my favourite instrument, orchestrally...

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Cello, cause it's the only one I can actually play.

 

[KindOfnElf]

Violin but I am biased since I play it all my life.

I can't pick a favorite ORCHESTRAL instrument, cause they ALL make the orchestra. If just ONE is missing, the thing falls apart. And the piece stops being what was meant to be. I realized that when I played in an orchestra and we were performing this perfectness and it's as complicated as it gets (as a combination of instruments and harmonies, that is) and you need all instruments at all time to make it work:

Spoiler: Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 I Movement Part 1

Spoiler: Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 I Movement Part 2

 

[NeutralDrow]

Ha! On the cello we can play millions of notes, and do VABRATO! You wish you could do that.

...

Louis? <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhNPswAR7Zg>Roll the tape.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Tuba...

yes I do play a tuba, why do you ask?

 

[Lord Honk]

Trombone. So much awesome stuff can be performed with a good trio/quartett of trombones.
Other than that, cello, and after that, brass in general.

 

[BrassButtons]

Cello ftw! Beautiful instrument with a wonderful tone and range of sounds. There's also a somewhat haunting quality to cello music that I adore. Of course I play the cello, so I'm biased.

On an unrelated note, is or is not the Viola a terrible instrument?

Absolutely not. The viola is another instrument with that haunting quality, as well as being capable of some truly beautiful sounds. A good violist, like any other good musician, can do magic with the instrument.

 

[0p3rati0n]

Tuba all the way!

 

[0p3rati0n]

Tuba...

yes I do play a tuba, why do you ask?

Hey I play tuba too! HIGH FIVE!

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

Violin PAGANINI OR GTFO!!!!

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

Good to see Trumpet beating Flute 6 to 1!

Take that flautists!

 

[illas]

Er... Piano?!

 

[somerandomguy76]

Trombone. So much awesome stuff can be performed with a good trio/quartett of trombones.
Other than that, cello, and after that, brass in general.

YES! Givin the bone some love!!

I've got to disagree though, brass beats everything. Canadian Brass ftw!

 

[Heart of Darkness]

I like bassoons, but my true love will always be the vibraphone. Timpanis are good, too.

And the viola is not a shitty rip-off of the violin. Then again, I can't expect much from the instrument whose players have the biggest egos and the lowest sound quality. xD

 

[Shimmyshake]

I'm gonna have to go with the cello, seeing as that's the only instrument I know how to play. Bt I have to say, why all the hatred for the viola? It's just an improved violin, making it more like the glorious cello.