Where are you in the orchestra?

[LightlyLuke]

Just for fun and with no heavy underlying meaning:

Where are you in the orchestra?

(Take it any way you want)

I'm in the percussion section just because I love percussion.

[LivingInGrey]

I play the clarinet, saxophone and a little bit of the flute. I also played the violin when I was younger. 

[r.morgan]

Percussion.  I admit I wasn't particularly good.   My only claim to fame was the ability to tune the timpani - even the one with a damaged head.  I tried to learn how to play the bugle (yeah, silly me) but it was always underpowered and 3-5 notes off pitch anyways...kind of like my singing! 

[insanitylives]

I play claranette and piano...

Since keyboards aren't on there, obvoiuslly woodwind

[Kay]

Well...I used to be a band director...but that reminds me of an old musician's joke:
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What's the difference between a Bull and an Orchestra?
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Well...the Bull has the horns in front and the a** in back, while the Orchestra has the the horns in the back and the a** in front. 
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Hrmm...on second thought...I won't be the director again....I'll go back to playing the horn.  Haven't played it for years, but spent much of my youth on the instrument in one band or another. 

[tekla]

I'll be in the box office, its the only place that makes real money.

[finewine]

I play claranette and piano...

Since keyboards aren't on there, obvoiuslly woodwind

Piano is on there - it's a percussion instrument (which is my choice too)

[LordKAT]

I picked woodwinds. Why? Well, I never payed an instrument but always thought the sound of a simple instrument like clarinet or pan pipes or ....that one(I'[l remember it later) was most enjoyable. You did say I didn't have to have any kind of good reason.

[SusanKC]

This orchestra's going to have a lot of percussion.  Actually, I never played in an orchestra, except for a couple of months on the coronet in 4th or 5th grade, whenever they started.  I wanted percussion, but someone beat me to it.  I couldn't get anywhere with that horn.  I remember one day when I couldn't hit a high note, the band teacher put me in the school kitchen to work on it.  I struggled mightily for several minutes, and as I finally hit it, the acordian doors in the servicing counter flew open!  That got plenty of laughs, which I was not looking for, and I hung up the horn shortly thereafter.  Later on I bought a drum set, and played in the bars for a few years, until some idiot invented DJs..

SusanKG

[YoungSoulRebel]

I clicked "strings" cos I played viola (in addition to being a chorister) from fourth grade up through high school.  In the metaphoric sense, I'm more of a soloist, especially since I've been lusting after the Ruby Gamba -- which is basically an upright electric viola with extra strings (they're both on the Alto Clef and take the same fingering; if you can play one, you can play the other relatively easily).

meta or Gamba... meta or gamba...  this is my big decision, since after converting from Euro, they both cost about the same.

[Cindy]

I went for strings 'cos I use to play (?) the violin. I finally got asked to leave the school orchestra after trying to tune a viola instead of a violin. Well it's only a small difference, and I always reckoned there were so may people no one would hear me anyway. Particularly as I spent most of the time 'air' playing the violin

Cindy (AKA Stephan Grappelli)

[Bombi]

Brass, I played trombone all through school.concerts, football games, parades, Played some through college and now jam with reagge bands in the VI

[Victoria L.]

Woodwind section!

Nothing deeper here, I play the bassoon. I've also played clarinet on occasion. (I would note saxophone but it's not an orchestral instrument. Although I guess I just did anyway!)

But I am formerly a member of the brass section. I played the trumpet, and it's funny because I think I still have a stronger connection with a few of my brass friends than I do others. Plenty of exceptions, of course.

Perhaps a deeper meaning could be found if I was allowed to pick all sections, because it would represent how I've really been all over the place and just can't possibly pick one thing. I'm a confused mess in other words - Once I get what I want, I want something else. At least I've been able to decide on the bassoon as my main instrument.

[justmeinoz]

struggling to learn trumpet so it's brass for me. Also they don't have steel or bass guitars in orchestras.LoL

What's the difference between an oboe and an onion?

Nobody cries when you cut up an oboe!

[Dianna]

Percussion, I play the piano.

[Ryuu]

I picked percussion because it's closest to bass. My teacher always said that bass was like "drums on a stick". xD

[tekla]

Hey, what does the band throw their bass player when he's drowning?  His amp.

[NDelible Gurl]

I played brass in high school.

Want to learn the piano in the coming years

[Adio]

I like this question   I fit mainly into the percussion section, but I can play brass and strings as well.

A small nitpick:  the piano is actually a string instrument, not percussion. 

[Osiris]

Strings since I play violin and that kinda music just calls to me.

BTW: piano can be considered both a string and a percussion instrument as to achieve its sound the string is hit, not strummed or bowed.