I'm a bit surprised that I haven't written a post on this topic before, so here it is.
As a joke I once sent my good friend and pen pal a used g-string enclosed with my letter to her. A used violin string. She's a violist, and I told her what it was. Hahaha, musician humor! No, actually that's a bad example of a music-related joke. Here's a slightly better one:
Q: What's the difference between a trampoline and a viola?
A: You take your shoes off before you jump on a trampoline.
I think I'll explain this a bit more in another post.
On the violin the g-string is the left-most string on the fingerboard and yields the violin's lowest note (you gueesd it: a G). The g-string is the thickest of all the string, the one most likely to make your fingers calloused. Of course, this is the string that can cause some misunderstandings. This didn't happen to Julian Matthias and I but to a fellow violinist: She was giving a lesson at the house of a young beginner when she noticed and commented out loud, "My g-string seems to be slipping". She was referring to her instrument; needless to say the student's parent poked her head in and wearing a bewildered expression. One incident that happened to me was that my g-string started to get frayed. I know there's a good joke in there somewhere, and that there are some good violin g-string jokes out there too, but I have yet to encounter a really good one.
This joke applies to almost all those who play string instruments. Rarely have I heard a good g-string joke. Mostly they all seem to boil down to "Heh heh...they said g-string....like panties heh heh heh"
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