Taurus (Apr 20 – May 20): Enchanted by the warm, earthy tones of the saxophone from the practice rooms at lunch, you’ve started saving up money to buy your own. You’ve gotten a planner specifically to plan your practicing, with all the kinks worked out. Hopefully, no one will have careless whispers about your playing—you’d just hate to see the painful look on their face when your practice pays off on stage.
Gemini (May 21 – June 20): For your next project, you’re making a two-part sound collage with a synth. You’ve spent hours downloading all the weirdest sounds you can possibly find, and you haven’t even started composing your masterpiece yet. No worries, you’re certain that you’ll create something interesting enough to entertain the audience of the next Cabaret.
Cancer (June 21 – Jul 22): As the weather warms, you’ve taken to the parks with your harmonica. It once belonged to your grandparents, but now it’s been passed down to you. You’ve started learning every simple melody you can figure out; play your cards right, and you’ll have your friends feelin’ alright with a special melody on your next road trip!
Leo (Jul 23 – Aug 22): You’ve started jamming with your musically-oriented friends at lunch, but it’s turned into a jam band (with you as the lead guitarist and songwriter, of course). You already have your drummer and bassist, but you still need a rhythm guitarist. Oh, and the band teacher may start asking questions when the guitar isn’t returned, but you are sure your natural charm will convince her to let you keep it.
Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22): You needed something to calm you before you sleep, so you’ve started taking violin lessons. You are seeing a definitive drop in your stress levels, and you enjoy the expressiveness of the instrument. Hopefully, with routine practice, you’ll see daily improvement in self-esteem and a decrease in self-deprecation.
Libra (Sep 23 – Oct 22): You’ve always been the type to be enchanted by things and sounds that bring you to another world. Listening to the flute does exactly that for you. You’re so disjointed from the boring nature of reality that you could just as easily be at Hogwarts. Of course, Ithaca is ten miles surrounded by reality.
Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 21): You don’t want to bring yourself down to the level of actually playing an instrument. No, you’re the one that’s going to make the symphony orchestra. You’ll recruit the typical ones—you know, violin, cello, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, percussion (although triangle isn’t useful to you). But you need some exotic instruments to add some spice. Sitar? Euphonium? Chromatic Harmonic? Harpsichord? Harp? You’ll work it out. You always do.
Sagittarius (Nov 22 – Dec 21): You’ve interpreted the omens: pictures of the first cellist overflowing into your locker, changes in the constellations at night, and a chance meeting with an orchestra substitute showing you how to fix a cello. The time has come for your grand return to the cello! Using your natural virtuoso capacity for everything, you’ll soon be teaching that lead cellist what’s what.
Capricorn (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Recently, one of your friends has formed a jam band at lunch, and you’re the electric bassist. Grooving along to the beat set by your energetic drummer, providing soft undertones to the lead guitarist’s solos is a novelty that you desperately need as the school year becomes too dull for you.
Aquarius (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Ensemble instrument? No way. That means you have to rely on other people—disgusting. So you’re going to start playing piano. And you’re going to teach yourself how. Within a week, you plan to learn your first concerto.
Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20): All of your friends are in orchestra, and you’ve always been the odd one out. Attracted by its beautiful sound and range, you’ve decided to take up the viola. Orchestras can always use more of them, and they play a crucial role in each song…right?
Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 19): You’re taking up percussion. Your very persuasive friend strongly encouraged (aka forced) you to join their band—this band, of course, having them as the lead guitarist and songwriter. You love using the drum set as an emotional punching bag, but your friend really wants you to play the triangle for their experimental eight-minute nightmare, um, sorry, masterpiece?
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