Violin

The violin is my least favorite of the stringed instruments. Maybe all of the common instruments. The range is set at one of the worst places to set a string. It screeches and it's more annoying than anything in the orchestra. Dare I say more annoying than an oboe. This instrument belongs in the orchestra and nothing else. It goes out of tune to easily and in the high strings, if anyone is slightly out of tune, your ears are pierced.

French Horn

This is another instrument that sounds horrible in the wrong hands. But I've heard horn contertos and they are amazing. There is so much that you can do on horn. I honestly can't play this instrument very well, but I have started to practice. The horn is in the key of F which has really thrown me for a loop but the trigger puts it in the key of Bb which is the same key and octave as my native instrument, the trombone. Although out of tune, this is the only way That I have been able to play with the ten minutes that I have practiced.

Horn is one of the few brass instruments that are in full orchestras because their main genre is classical. Marches are not marches without a nice horn section. Even though they only have the upbeat.

So my choice for the french horns genres are strictly classical. Like all instruments they could play in any genre, but please don't have a french horn in a rock band.

Soprano clarinet

All through middle school and most of high school I thought that the clarniet was the most annoying instrument in the world. Well it is. I mean that in all sincerity. The clariniet is the most annoying instrument on the face of the planet when in the wrong hands. But when in the right hands the soprano clarinet can be one of the most beautiful things that you have ever heard. In the orchestra that I am in, Maestro chose a piece with a solo clarinet. All I could think is that there was going to be a squeaking and gawking clarinet, but when she played it, it completely owned the other people in the orchestra. This type of clarinet is looked over way to much. When I'm Sixty- Four by the beatles has a clariniet choir in it. All of the best old jazz songs has clarinet. The original version of Sing Sing Sing had a clarinet solo in the beggining and in my opinion it was better before they replaced it with soprano sax. Rhapsody in blue starts out with a clarinet solo that if played well sets up the whole piano solo. Obviously the clarniet can't be in rock, but IF IN THE RIGHT HANDS a clarniet can fit into almost any genre of music.