Daily Orchestra Life

Tuning pegs that suddenly get really loose during the seasons and requires a hell lot of effort to push back in place.

Viola jokes

Being sore from practicing too hard

Bow problems/needing to get the bow hair replaced

Shoulder cramps, numb fingers, and feeling overall dead

When the most extreme exercise you get is from solos with a private teacher

Leaving your violin/viola at home and having to use the school instrument

When your shoulder rest falls off right before a song/in the middle of a song

Doing auditions like: *walks into room, trips, impales self on bow, and whispers as I slowly bleed to death,* "Did I pass?"

Pressuring younger siblings/family members to play a string instrument

Thoughts when your crush is also in orchestra but plays a different instrument and you think about what instrument your child will play.

Having a intruder drill and brainstorming with fellow orchestra members on how to best use their instruments as weapons

The tiny bit of your soul that dies every time your instrument gets a scratch