Why do violinists hate violists

I want to be a professional violist, and go to a good music school but these jokes are really undermining how I feel about myself as a muscian. Why do people make such hurtful remarks about my instrument? First up: stop having a pity party! If a joke is affecting whether you want to be a violist or not, you need to reevaluate your chosen path a bit. You'll hear violin jokes, soprano jokes, conductor jokes, and percussion jokes--just to name a few.

It's humor, and poking fun at musical stereotypes. People tell viola jokes because they are funny. Geez, you'll hear jokes about "normal" college majors, blonde jokes, job professions, and anything else that is possible to be picked on. Violinists get a lot of flack too, with our big heads, bigger egos, and overinflated sense of self. I just picked on myself. Because being a violinist, I can very much see where that stereotype comes from :. Basically, not to be blunt, but Every instrument gets picked on!

It's a form of humor. Feel free to participate in it. Maybe even crack a viola joke yourself. Mozart loved the viola too. It has a proud and honorable history. I was a violinist first and started playing the viola as an adult, because I loved the sound of it. Learning the viola helped me find a voice that I hadn't known I had. For some reason I've never minded viola jokes, even when I'm wearing the violist hat.

I think they are mostly meant with affection, and when they're not, you can always ask whether the violin is really smaller than the viola or if it's just that the violinists' heads are so much bigger. I agree that most jokes are funny. What I ment when I posted this blog was why so many violinists cross the line with the jokes. I can take alot, I laugh at most of them, but quite often, people just dont know when to shut up. Kaylen, God that website is funny!! Violinists make jokes about viola because they are jealous.

Violinists can't read alto clef, the violin makes their heads look big, and their instruments don't burn as long as ours do ;. Well, you won't be hearing any viola jokes from me. As the old saying goes, "Don't knock it till you've tried it.

How can you tell if a soprano is on your porch? She can't find the key and doesn't know when to come in. And, of course, it is the poor conductor who is the brunt of so many jokes, many of which can't be included in a family newspaper. A guy walks into a pet shop and asks how much the green parrot costs. Shocked, he asks what makes him so valuable. The pet shop owner says that the parrot can sing all of the Puccini opera arias in Italian. The guy asks how much for the yellow parrot.

Stunned, he asks what this one can do. Not only can he sing all of Puccini, he can perform the entire hour Ring cycle by Wagner in German.

Finally, he asks, "How much for the blue parrot? Flabbergasted, he says, "What does he do? Sporting an unsophisticated and generally sophomoric sense of humor, Scott Faulkner is principal bassist of the Reno Phil and Reno Chamber Orchestra. Facebook Twitter Email. What's the difference between a bass player and a large pizza, and more musician jokes. Scott Faulkner Reno Gazette-Journal. Let's call the whole thing off….

Great idea, genius. Obviously no other viola works exist in the entire world, so that seems a logical one to aim for. Even the violist's pin-up of choice was cruel to the viola. In fact, he had the following to say about anyone unfortunate enough to play one: "Viola players were always taken from among the refuse of violinists. It'll be fun, they said. Don't worry about unlearning everything you've learned about reading treble clef, they said.

So what you do, right, is just play the same notes for 15 minutes and suppress the urge to set the Ravel museum on fire. Like this wacky guy.