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Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it” 

Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect. 

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To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.

On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.

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I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

justtkeepcalmm

Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.

The lengths we go for music.

gunslingerannie

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.

elsajeni

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 — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. 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, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.

grellholmes

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

officialdeadparrot

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

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which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

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that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

prokopetz

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

vivelafat

Julius IdontgivaFucik

justamerplwithabox

More like Julius Fuckit

sushinfood

Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share

haha-leigh

I haven’t been in band for years but this made me laugh so hard

hergeekiness

I haven’t seen this post in ages and I’m dying of laughter

tobinlaughing

I didn’t think it could get better after The Foghorn Tuba Story, but it did. It got better. Bless you, MusicTumblr.

poppiesss

every time i see this i laugh so i’m reblogging it so i can laugh at it every day thank you and goodnight

silvererros

OMG I’m in tears I’m laughing so hard! XD

darklingsheart3

YES! THIS HATH APPEARED ON MY DASH AGAIN BLESS YOU ALL

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Do you live in Massachusetts? Are you looking for some direct action to take? Guess what our shitty state house just did!

tweet reading: The Massachusetts House has taken a major step towards banning trans athletes in sports. It would be the first blue state to do so. The amendment has been inserted into the state budget bill. This is a five alarm fire for trans people in Massachusetts.ALT

It’s passed in the house and going to the state senate as far as I can tell and it seems like they just snuck it in there because ???. So it’s time to harass your state senator and rep. You can find them here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

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Call them, email them, send them letters, protest outside their doors, whatever. Let them know this will not stand here

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Yo, fuck this shit. We cannot let them do this. We must remain a safe haven for those in need.

Link to article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/09/metro/massachusetts-house-opposite-sex-teams-transgender-athletes/

Amendment and bill number: Amendment #81 to H4005

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keep forgetting to add:

Resistbot: you can text SIGN PPAHUD to 50409 if you live in MA and it will send the following letter to your state rep and state senator:

Please protect kids in Massachusetts! Bills like Amendment #81 to H4005 are part of the baseless attacks against trans youth happening across our country right now. We don’t need public hearings to know that this will negatively impact all student athletes in Massachusetts and perpetuate anti-LGBTQ sentiment that doesn’t belong in our great state. Do not allow Amendment #81 to H4005 to be passed.

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Via Representative Thomas Moakley (Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket) [empasis mine]:

Thank you so much for the message and for your advocacy. The House disposed of Rep. Gaskey’s amendment, the substance of which I am categorically opposed to, by way of a procedural method Wednesday, essentially sending it to the parliamentary black hole of a “study”. I would have preferred to get the chance to vote NO. I am proud to be a member of the legislature’s LGBTQ caucus and advocate for bills that improve equity for our community here in Massachusetts, no matter what is happening in DC. We also hosted a trans day of visibility at the state house a couple weeks ago to make our support for known to all.  Rep. Gaskey’s amendment shows how that this scapegoating, pernicious way of thinking has made its way into the State House, and we remain vigilant.

So it’s dead dead. It may technically still exist, but it’s never going to come into play.

Voicing support for the trans community is still great, but on this matter we’re safe. It ain’t coming back. Although I expect Gaskey and his cronies will keep trying to slither stuff in. At least it seems our Dems are on guard and paying attention.

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Listen to me

LISTEN TO ME

A game called South of Midnight comes out on April 8th. Y’all keep complaining about media having the same storyline over and over again with the same white people at the forefront. I need you to blow this game the fuck up.

Black female main character. With American South mythology woven in. Completely different

I NEED THIS GAME TO SUCCEED I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS GAME YOU HAVE NO IDEA

I’m looking you in your eyes right now. Play this game. Play this fucking game.

Threads remake

A UK studio is going to be remaking the TV movie Threads, about the aftermath of a nuclear exchange that sends the world (and our POV city, Sheffield) into chaos.

I’ve never seen it, but having read up about it, yeah, I can see why it would traumatize a whole generation. I can also see why there’d be a push for a remake, both because of the increasing instability of world politics and because of the popularity of the game Atomfall.

Threads is bleak. It’s grim. It’s a movie that warns viewers that most of them won’t be lucky enough to die in the initial blast. It offers no or little hope to those who do.

I have no interest in seeing the remake myself, but I’m a little curious to see how the producers are going to handle it. The original showed your stereotypical dissolving society where everyone is in it only for themselves, violence is the language that matters, and everyone has it in for everyone else.

Just once it’d be nice to see a scenario where, in the wake of horrific violence and tragedy, people band together to look out for each other. Not everyone, obviously, but enough to make a go of it as a small community. Despite the cynicism of Hollywood, humans are generally inclined to try and help each other. Even when resources are limited.

It would be very VERY easy to make an ugly TV series where everyone is awful, minorities in particular are extra persecuted, and no one does anything to stop it. That is, IMO, boring, lazy, and inaccurate.

Show me a suburban mom attacking a racist asshole so the Muslim couple he’s trying to kill can escape. Give me the owners of a little bodega handing out their inventory to their neighbors- good and bad- because it’s the right thing to do. Teachers and librarians salvaging as many books as they can because we’re going to need them (although books like Art of the Deal can be used to light fires to keep families warm). The cranky old woman who’s always yelling at kids to get off her stoop/lawn who starts teaching anyone who’ll listen how to garden properly. Or knit. Or whatever. She’s still cranky and snappish, but she’s going to help these idiots anyway.

Let people be people. There will always be horrible, selfish bastards (some of them in charge of governments and businesses), but there are also kind ones. And helpless ones who try anyway. And ones who hate everything but hate what’s happening even more.

I don’t know that the remake will bother with that kind of path. Cynicism and fear seem to be much bigger monetary factors these days, but a nerd can hope. And if not with this production, maybe another.

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For those of yall wondering what the fuck is up with my chihuahua, the answer is unfortunately, we don’t really know.

We, in this case, being scientists. See, the thing is, Pale foxes (Vulpes pallida) live in the Sahel region of Africa, which is notoriously inhospitable. Not to mention the fact they blend in perfectly with the landscape. So researchers aren’t really going out and studying them :/

I’d love to see some more funding made available to biology students in the countries where the pale fox is found to get a better idea of what they are all about.

As far as Sméagol himself, he came from a rescuer-turned-hoarder situation. We don’t know who his original breeder was, or if he was caught in the wild. We do know, however, that he is the oldest recorded pale fox in the world and that his dietary, enrichment, and veterinary needs are being met, and that he is less cold tolerant than fennecs.

how interestingglad he's getting good care now at least
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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Battlechef Beater
Weapon (mace), uncommon ___ This bladed mace doubles as a hefty whisk used in cooking. It magically spins when swung, such as when whisking a mixing bowl or when used as a weapon. This weapon deals either bludgeoning or slashing damage (your choice each time), plus an extra 1d4 damage of that type whenever it hits a creature. If the creature isn’t solid (but still physical), such as an ooze or water elemental, this extra damage is maximized. Whenever you make an ability check using cook’s utensils and use this weapon as part of that tool, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the check.
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