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1)Pretending to put rosin on your bow because you're too tired to play.

2)When your instrument falls out of its case and everyone stares at you.

3) Messing up a song and having to play it again.

4) Having to review an easy song.

5) When the person behind you *cough* JoonWoo *cough* wants to trade spots.

6) When you start practicing alone and everyone stares at you.

7)Forgetting your instrument in your previous classes.

8) Having to pretend that you are mortal enemies with your friends because they're in band.

9) Buying chocolate from a friend and feeling guilty because the proceeds go to band.

10) Wanting to throttle someone in band who is your friend...

11) Wanting to have a play-off against band but not being able to.

12) Getting into an argument with someone who says band is better.

13) Accidentally beating someone up while swinging your case around.

14) Not so accidentally beating someone up with your case.

15) Trying to prove you're better than any band member.

16) Being obsessed with being superior to band.

17) Failing to open a door because of your instrument.

18) Getting upset because nobody understands how much you hate band.

19)When your teacher makes you play a solo in front of the class to 'show them how it's done.'

20) Forgetting to loosen your bow.

21) Plotting murder for band members who rub that they're better in your face.

22) (For violin players) Thinking you can play a cello and failing miserably.

23) When your parents ask how you're doing in orchestra.

24) Complaining about having to carry your instrument everywhere.

25) Getting blisters from constantly practicing a pizzicato piece.

26) Getting upset because your bow is losing more hair than your orchestra teacher.

27) Plucking too hard and actually hurting yourself.

28) Hitting your stand partner with your bow while playing.

29) Tripping over a cello.

30) Fencing with bows. Enough said.

31) When someone in front of you *cough* JoonWoo *cough* waves his hand in front of your sheet music during a playing test and you have to stop and yell at them.

32)Accidentally dropping your rosin and breaking it.

33) Stepping on broken rosin.

34) Losing your sheet music and having to borrow someone else's.

35) When your parents complain about having to drive you to concerts.

36) When you have t0 dive over cases and cellos while trying not to drop your instrument.

37) Nearly getting your eye poked out by your stand partner's bow.  

38) When the air conditioner blows away your sheet music.

39) When you're first chair and everyone tries to kill you so they can be first chair.

40) Getting upset because you can't play your favorite song on your instrument.

41) Doing the walk of shame back to your previous class because you forgot your instrument.

42) Getting pity looks because you keep messing up on an easy song.

43) Getting repeatedly poked by the person behind you's bow *glares at JoonWoo.*

44) Making your stand fall over.

45) Watching Joey try and fail to get something from Chuck

46) (For cello players) When someone kicks your 'precious.'

47) People obsessed with band members!

48) Randomly holding a pencil using a bow hold.

49) Using a cello bow on a violin or vice versa just to see what it feels like.

50)Noticing how many problems people in orchestra have.

51) Wanting to lick rosin just to see what it tastes like.

52) Joey and JoonWoo messing stuff up and wasting time.

53) Having too much time to write these problems.

54) Ending the class too early.

55) Accidentally touching the bow hair and freaking out.

56) Wondering if people in band have as many problems.

57) Wondering if we are actually better than band.

58) Going to the classroom to drop off your instrument but it's locked.

59) Having to climb up cubby holes to get your instrument.

60) Having to explain this list to non-orchestra people *Nyasha*

61) Complaining about how the band room is bigger.

62) Wondering if drama and chorus have the same feud as band and orchestra.

63) Accidentally hitting yourself in the chin with your violin/viola.

64) Using your bow as a back scratcher.

65) Being too hardcore...

66) Tripping over your own case.

67) Listening to the screeching of a stand 'head' flipping over.

68)Daydreaming of playing a solo and acing it.

69) Wanting to build a box fort out of the boxes in the corner.

70) Skipping the coda.

71) Seeing if you can play your violin by holding it as a cello.

72) Wanting to call Mr. Spragens Mr. Swagens.

73) #Alleghetto.

74) Watching Chuck, Liam, and Arik have 'facial language.'

75) Purposely making your instrument out of tune so you can stop playing while Mr. Spragens tunes it.

76) Seeing graffiti on the whiteboard from people sneaking in and writing how much they miss Mr. Spragens because Mr. Spragens is WAY BETTER than Mrs. Begley.

77) Feeling awesome because we are less girly than band because Gabriella tips the scales.

78) When Gabriella calls herself awesome.

79) When everyone around you knows something you don't .

80) Thinking you lost your bow but it's actually in your hand.

81) Messing up a note and starting a chain reaction of mistakes.

82) Accidentally loosening the bow hair so much that the screw falls out.

83) Playing your instrument with paper.

84) Forgetting your shoulder rest at home and being in pain all day.

85) Picking a hair out of your bow and playing an instrument with it.

86) When other school orchestras think they're better.

87) Messing up your bow hold and dropping your bow.

88) Wanting to talk to someone in the cellos but being too lazy to walk over.

89) When someone plays a whole song perfectly and shouts at the top of their lungs, "KILL 'EM!"

90) When band members brag because they have more instruments than us.

91) When you bring a pencil every day and don't need it, but the one day you don't, there is a written test.

92) Playing random notes and making it sound boss.

93) Getting hand cramps during a concert.

94) Getting your lanyard stuck in your sound box.

95) Falling in love with a band member *cough* Caitlin, Lula, and Ellis *cough*

96) Wanting to stab someone with a bow.

97) Naturally sitting on the edge of your chair.

98) Waiting a really long time before you come in.

99) We've got ninety-nine problems and band IS one.

100) Not having orchestra t-shirts.

101) Cats are to dogs as band is to orchestra.... Dogs are better.

102) Finding out your orchestra teacher's main instrument is a trumpet and that he used to be a band director.

103) Everyone gasping after #102, but Mr. Spragens saying he, "came to the good side" and calming everyone down.

104) Air bowing.

105) When Mr. Spragens yells "STOP!" and everyone gets nervous and hopes he doesn't make their section play.

106)Being called an orchadork.

107) Getting a song stuck in your head from orchestra.

108) Leaving your instrument at school and feeling like you're missing something.

109) Trying to communicate using 'facial language' without Mr. Spragens noticing.

110) Wondering what the world would be like if band and orchestra were united.

111) Having to listen to classical music as homework.

112) Realizing that band has more popular guys than orchestra.

113) When your instrument falls out of your locker and onto someone.

114) Realizing how pointless the band vs. orchestra feud is.

115) Losing an argument with multiple band members because you are the only orchadork to battle them.

116) Hoping time will freeze so you can stay in orchestra forever.

117) Realizing you're obsessed with orchestra.

118) Liking the stand line.

119) Screaming "MY PRECIOUS" whenever someone touches your case.

120) Hating when orchestra concerts ruin your plans.

121) Thinking, "You have no idea" when your band friends complain about their problems.

122) Having a sub who doesn't know how to tune.... and your instrument is sounding like a dying whale.

123) Missing Mr. Spragens when he's gone because your instrument needs to be tuned.

124) Trying to tune your own instrument, but making it worse.

125) Orchestra is the perfect time to tell secrets...

126)Lanyards getting caught in your instrument.

127) Trying to find out who Candy Cane is...

128) Almost falling asleep during a playing test.

129) Trying to do vibrato, but making it look like your hand is having a seizure and it sounds like a dying Show Pony.

130) Hating tuning.

131) Cringing after playing a song for the first time.

132) When you have a really long rest.... I REFUSE TO COUNT!

133) Hoping your stand partner is counting the rests.

134) Wondering what kind of person buys black collared shirts.

135) Being glared at by an examiner as you (try to) sightread.

136) Trying to work out awkward page turns.

137) The pain of when 1/2 of your section plays F Sharp and the other plays F Natural.

138) Seeing 'piano' and 'forte' but knowing you'll play at the exact same volume.

139) When Mr. Spragens says, "Not bad," and you know you failed.

140) Giving up because you played so badly.

141) "You're in band, right?"

         "Orchestra..."

142) Dysfunctional stands.

143) Getting your bow hair stuck on your pegs.

144) Black concert pants... White rosin....

145) Hitting your instrument on something and saying "Ouch."

146) Playing all the way through a song and grinning.

147) When someone teases you for being in orchestra... They're just jealous.

148) Tuning your instrument with your phone.

149) Metronomes.

150) Trying to beat your stand partner in saying, "Dibs on not getting the stand!"

151) Arguing with your stand partner on who gets the stand.

152)Finding a stand at your chair and thanking whichever god you believe in.

153) Viciously protecting your stand from stand thieves.

154) Envying those who have stands already at their seats when you walk in.

155) Having a favorite stand.

156) Not having clean black clothes on the night/day of the concert.

157) When your hair static-clings to your chair.

158) Realizing that most of your best friends are band members.

159) Cringing when you hear a cello drop.

160) When your weird mind imagines a wooden double bass dropping when someone says, "Drop the bass..."

161) Trying to create orchestra based comebacks.

162) Laughing as you remember Mr. Spragens saying, "Ready? 1,2, and 3.....Pysche!"

163) Trying to hold Kambry back as she screams, "Band scum!" at an annoying band member.

164) Being secretly proud of your friends as the argue and defend orchestra from band.

165) Listening to awesome musicians playing and then playing that song and sounding like a beginner.

166) Zoning out and then only zoning in when Mr. Spragens starts counting.

167) Ruining your nails because the strings keep digging into them.

168) Shifting too high or too low.

169) Forgetting to practice before a concert.

170) Trying to do homework during playing tests.

171) Trying to read during playing tests.

172) Being called a stringhead.

173) Tensing up when Mr. Spragens comes by your seat while you're playing.

174) Becoming nervous when everyone stares at you while you're playing.

175) Tuning. Especially when you're first chair...

176) When your instrument becomes out of tune in the middle of a concert.

177) When you start thinking about all the worst possibilities that can happen during a concert.

178) Multiple concerts in a week.

179) When someone plays a song and you get a sudden urge to one-up them.

180) When about 75% of tall, somewhat fit, 'old' guys start to look like/remind you of Mr. Spragens.

181) Not having an after party after every concert.

182)When you close your case but see your bow sitting on the stand.

183) Counting through a bunch of rests only to have Mr. Spragens stop right before you come in.

184) (For viola players) When someone calls your viola a violin.

185) (For cello players) Finding a hole for the endpin.

186) (For viola players) Listening to a recording of a song to hear your part, only to remember that it won't matter because you can never hear the violas.

187) Calling people band scum.

188) (For cello players) Sucky rock stops.

189) Those 3 2nd violins that don't know the difference between the D and A strings.

190) Noah's puns.

191) That one crappy stand that you always end up getting.

192) Vicious stand partners.

193) Vicious stand partners with heavy binders and a certain dislike towards you.

194) When Mr. Spragens starts talking while you are in the middle of a heated discussion.

195) Sneezing right before the end of a song.

196) People hearing the wrong thing and asking what measure.

197) You replying the wrong measure.

198) That one piece you hate.

199) Ending up in an argument about which instrument is the best.

200) "GET THE FLIP OFF MY STAND!" 

201) (For cello players) People telling you to put your endpin in when you set your cello down for 10 seconds.

202) Secretly admiring band and band players.

203) To Dance in the Fields of Glory.

204) Rests (the kind you count).                                    

205) Getting stuck with the boring part in a song- G D-D G D G D-D G D...

206) The one person practicing a different song when we organize a group song practice.

207) Failing a song in front of a sub.

208) Accidentally hitting someone with your bow.

109) Going to the wrong measure.

210) Butt cramps during a concert.

211) (For violin players) Realizing you should have picked the cello.

212) (For cello players) Realizing you should have picked the violin.

213) Getting to a concert late.

214) Mini-seizures when you nearly drop your instrument.

215) Looking at your fingers during a concert and realizing that they're too flat/sharp.

216) (For cello players) EXTENSIONS!!!!!! (Violin extensions are like 2 cm.)

217) You and your stand partner are polar opposites (Opposites DISTRACT).

218) The guilt of sneaking out of orchestra when the stands and chairs aren't racked and stacked.

219) Throwing your folder onto  shelf like a boss... and failing miserably.

220) "NO!!!! STAY!!!! STAY!!!! FAN GODS, WHY!!!!"

221) When your neat stack of stuff underneath your chair is kicked around while you're on stand duty.

222) Zoning out on a boring part- A D G A D G A D G A D G A D G A A A A A A A A A A... 

223) Repeats.

224) (For cello players) Getting stuck with the circular rock stops.

225) Accidentally hitting your instrument against your stand and having a heart attack.

226) Thinking about performing and starting to panic.

227) When Mr. Spragens finally finds the Orchestra Problems page and everyone stares at him as he quietly reads them...

228) When Mr. Spragens reads the Orchestra Problem that mentions Mr Spragens, bow hair, and hair loss..

229) Who died and made you conductor?

230) Watching people pretend to conduct and knowing that if they were an actual conductor they would fail.

231) When Mr. Spragens tells a section to play, but you start playing even though you aren't in that section.

232) Swapping instruments with someone for a day.

233) "It's not da-da-da-da-da, it's da-da-da-da-da-da! Come on guys!" -Mr. Spragens.

234) When Mr. Spragens moves to the beat of the music while humming the notes and it looks like some form of odd

religious ritual.

235) When someone grabs your stand and you fight back saying, "my precious....."

236) When you sheet music folder blows up. Music everywhere.

237)  When you try to practice your instrument but you are forced to stop because your sibling is 'studying for a test'

238) When you are trying to practice but your sibling and or parents come in and tell you to shut up or they'll snap your bow in half.

239) When you have to face Mr. Spragen's death glare.

240) Watching people trip over your instruments.

241) Trippy instruments in general.

242) Watching YouTube videos like Dark Lord Funk or Cello Wars before practice

243) When you accidentally take someone else's instrument

244) Getting jealous of Chuck because he gets to play Mr. Spragens' instrument

245) When Mr. Spragens yells, "Focus, come on guys!" and someone *cough* Gabriella *cough* says, "Focus, focus, focus, fo- Ooh! Is that a squirrel?"

246) When someone looks through your playlists and you have to make up excuses for why you have so much classical music on them.

247) When your stand tries to kill you.

248) When you try to kill your stand.

249) Missing orchestra on power days :(

250) Crusty strings.

251) Cringing as your instrument takes yet another blow.

252) Having to read up the whole list to see if your next problem was already recorded.

253) When Caitlin's arm gets tired from tuning.

254) When Caitlin makes a mistake and everyone yells, "Come on, Caitlin!"

255) When everyone starts saying the new stands make us better

256) When you get new stands and you're enjoying how easily they turn.

257) When you get new stands and everyone is yelling, "NEW STANDS!"

258) When you miss rewards day because of String Day

259) When you regret going to String Day because of the weird, messed-up, too slow tempos

260) Having/hearing ten different tempos during a concert

261) Having the urge to just flipping play the song twice the speed than the conductor's tempo

262) Hearing the non-orchestra members groan and complain about you coming back from an orchestra trip

263) When Noah and Ben are playing in the background and you have to tell them to shut up 20 times, while giving them an evil glare.

264) When Liam gets mad at Mr. Spragens when he doesn't notice his vibrato, or compliments someone elses.

265) Arik wanting a higher seat

266) Not having orchestra during KPREP and wishing that you had it for fifth period.

267) When you see Mr. Spragens at the track and you scream "HI!"

268) Having a school instrument and not being able to take it home over the summer.

269)Not having orchestra over the summer.

270) Having to explain to the chorus members they will never be part of the Band vs. Orchestra feud. 

271) When you're new to the class and everyone already knows the music and you're expected to know too.

272) When band gets their fundraiser packets just ONE FLIPPIN DAY before orchestra and they already have ALL THE OLYMPIAN TEACHERS on their list! *huff*

273) FUNDRAISING TIME.

274) When you ask a teacher if they want to get some stuff from the fundraiser but a band member has already asked and they accepted

275) EVERY SINGLE TEACHER YOU ASK HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED BAND

276) Wishing you had your fundraising packet before band because (see problems 272-275).

277) Being too shy and nervous of asking adults around your neighborhood for fundraising

278) Planning which teachers to ask and hoping they haven't been asked yet by band

279) When you find out that one teacher bought TWENTY FLIPPIN FOUR ITEMS from ONE band member

280) Not selling chocolate bars.

281) When playing a song you accidentally play a high-2 instead of a low-2, and you know Mr. Spragens heard it

282) When playing Let It Snow, you feel all warm and fuzzy and you don't want to stop playing.

283) Eagerly awaiting the Fayette Mall concerts

284) Wanting to join forces with Band and put aside the petty feud

285) Regretting starting the feud between band and orchestra

286) Getting ranty because the band room is twice the size of the orchsetra room

287) Branderburg Concertos

288) Really wanting to show band how awesome your orchestra is, but being coveredup by the eigth graders

289) Wanting the solo, but the eighth grade concertmaster is so much better than you