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We had an orchestra when I went to High School...we just called it "Band."
Honestly, I know there is a techinical difference but I would still see both versions playing "Eye of the Tiger" at concerts, so what is the diff?
I had gotten 49% or some such last time I checked. It keeps going up, though, the more I talk to other geeks. For example, once I heard who Jeanine Salla was, I had to go back and re-do the test. Still resisting urge to learn how to program calculator and do high and roll step simultaneously.
quote:I love nothing more than the idea of a bunch of old gentlemen sitting around a pub drinking scotch, smoking cigars and talking about literature and academics.
So you're a Pretentious Geek.
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Geez, how many cellists do we have here, anyway? Me, Tom (didn't he say that he played?), Megan, and did Hobbes just imply that he played, too?
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fil, MY high school orchestra NEVER played Eye of the Tiger. We played Brandenburg Concertos and some of Handel's Concerti Grossi, and other things written specifically for a string orchestra (no brass, winds, or percussion). The band played pop songs and marched for football games.
and to continue de-railing the thread...wow, more Hatrack cellists? ...could there be a hatrack cello choir? Neat! Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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Don't get me wrong, Farmgirl; I have nothing against Eye of the Tiger, per se. I just have a problem with high school string orchestras playing things that are much better suited to bands simply because their directors are too overworked (or lazy) to find all the good music written for string orchestra. Pep band/jazz band/marching band is a much better place for tunes like that.
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I've done this one a while ago. I think I was somewhere around 30%. The guy next to me got over 50%, and another guy who got 30-ish had his wife try it and she got about 45.
Fun test, but long.
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Primal, orchestra can also be just a string orchestra. There's plenty of music written for just strings (or strings plus harpsichord) from all periods of music history, particularly since orchestras in the baroque and part of the classical period were just that...strings. Brass, winds, and percussion didn't get added til later.
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Actually, I used to be doing it on a Linux box, but then a faster comoputer came and the Sys Admin couldn't get Red Hat installed so instead it's XP.
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The fact that you haven't just downloaded an iso of Redhat and installed it yourself shows your low-level of computer geekiness.
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I am a Geek, but only a minor one, chiefly due to my love of SF & fantasy (I crushed the literature section) and odd trivia. My score was 16%.
I sent this test to my computer programmer/video game-playing brother, who I think has beat everyone I know with a score of 67% - Geek God.
I also took the time to follow the link to the related message board, where a high score is viewed as a sign of greatness. Some poor (my term, not his) guy scored 90%. Posts: 27 | Registered: Sep 2003
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I had my oldest son take the test last night -- he got a 42.6% I think, and that is without him even knowing any programming languages. But he was strong on the sci-fi books, movies, and RPG stuff.
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