#second chair

the whole orchestra messes w/ him tbh

so basically there's this soli part i play with the first chair alto and our band director made us write four fortes because we were playing too quiet and then the day of contest she didn't play the soli with me so basically i became a soloist and didn't mess up and played loudly and basically saved us from possibly getting a bad rating

Honestly the worst seating in the flute section is probably 2nd chair. Not only do you have to deal with the regular bitterness of not being 1st but then you have to figure out how to turn your body so your flute is behind the 3rd chairs head but be able to see the 1st chair's stand all while trying to actually be able to breathe and deal with being in their shadow and internally screaming about how close you were.

Play testing tomorrow!! (We play test to decide which chair we play for our band concerts and we just finished a concert so yeah) I hope I move up. First concert I was 1st chair, second concert I was second chair. (there are 4 euphonium/baritone players)