> > Yes, but then evil school music "teachers" decide they should make/get arrangements of them for string camp/school orchestras. They never learn that we don't care how cool or weel-known the peice is, it isn't made for twenty violins, five cellos, two basses and a viola. I hate to admit it, but most of them need... brass. Not that I don't like brass-- I actually do-- but most things worth playing are made for strings. (-;
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> > [bad memories from Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Jurassic Park arranged for orchestra]
> >
> > Chr"I went to String Camp... I'm gonna be cool now for sure!"is
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> *Twenty* violins and *one* viola? Hey, your orchestra is even more lopsided than mine.
> ~*awe and mysticism*~
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> -Mel

Naw, but it seems like it. There are, I believe... twenty violins, three violas [only one that plays consistantly and I think she'd really a violinist... I've pondered taking it up for the orchestra... prob'ly not, I'd have to stop making jokes], about a dozen cellos and just the one Bass. Beginning band's pretty well balanced, though. I think... two basses, 2/3 as many cellos as violins and half as many violas as cellos, but we only played together once and I was too busy being off-task to notice.