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Double Bass - my instrument

Easy to play badly - very hard to impossible to play well.

1- For a start it's one of the biggest instruments you have to carry about with you so you're exhausted before you start

2- It's very hard to tune in the orchestra because of the low notes

3 - Even if it's in tune you usually aren't playing it in tune

4 - All the music written for it thinks it's a cello and almost nobody plays it like a cello. Even when they do, like Gary Karr, it doesn't sound like a cello anyway

5 - Because it doubles up the cellos and they go down to C it has ridiculous extensions called "fire escapes" or 5 strings which makes it a real monster and even worse to play.



Edits: 08/12/14

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