Cello

Although I am not the biggest fan of the orchestra, I love the sound of the cello. What brought me upon the cello was The Beatles. In almost all of their best songs they had a cellos. The most obvious being Strawberry Fields Forever. Like I said, I'm not an orchestra person, but if an all-state cello were to be preforming a concerto nearby I would be there. Unlike the bass which can't play high and the violin and viola which can't play low, the cello has a range that is probably loved most because of the trombone side of me. Cello fits in the classical genre easily but unless you are playing with the beatles, I don't think that they belong anywhere else.

Trombone

I am a trombone player so my views are going to be a lot more bias than that of other instruments. First of all, trombone is the best instrument in the winds. It's also better than many of the other instruments. Trombone is one of the few instruments that can be used in any genre of music. If you were to look up Christian Lindberg, who is the best classical trombone player, and compare him to a jazz trombonist you would be amazed with both. I'll keep this post short because trombone is the best instrument and I can't talk bad about it. Because there is nothing bad to say.

The saxophone

Obviously the saxophone is a wonderful jazz instrument, but what others genres of music can it be used in. The tenor sax and the alto sax are some of the easiest doubling instruments. If you don't know why. The reed and mouthpiece sizes are the right proportion so that a brass player or woodwind player wouldn't have to change their embrasure and are the same basic fingerings as most woodwinds. Rock, blues and many of the favorite modern songs aren't complete without one or two of these. Jazz usually has a couple of both and usually has a baritone sax, which is an octave lower than alto sax. Another one of the more common saxes is the soprano sax. Soprano sax is usually only used in two genres of music. Oddly enough, they are completely the opposite. Jazz and classical. The instrument is an octave higher than the tenor sax and is used in jazz for the high pitches. Used in classical for one reason. I think that it's only used because it sounds like an oboe. Their are also two more saxophones that aren't specially made. The sopranino saxophone which is an octave higher than alto and is rarely used. And the bass sax which is an octave lower than tenor sax. I believe that the saxophone is primarily a jazz instrument and even though used sometimes in classical, jazz should be the only genre it plays in professionally

Oboe, Bassoon and the double reeds

Which genres can the double reeds play in? Obviously they can't play any form of rock. Could you imagine an English horn belt out a rock ballad? I've heard one jazz bassoon and well, it just took to much time to put together all of the sound equipment. No one can hear them on a marching field and at a metal concert who would notice the shrill of an oboe. The only place that these strange woodwinds belong is the concert hall for an orchestra or symphony. Take the contra bassoon with the notes that are five or more ledger lines below the staff, in a symphony a person could hear the fog horn sound of a b- flat zero. And any double reed that is as piercing as an oboe should never be heard.